adult respiratory distress syndrome?
Adult respiratory distress syndrome is synonymous with acute respiratory distress syndrome and is a descriptive term for a fairly massive rapid onset of severe lung injury. There are a number of things which can cause this sort of injury in the lung: infection, fume inhalation injury, autoimmune diseases, trauma, and others. The lung injury causes damage to the alveoli (the numerous air-sacs in the lung) causing them to become leaky and ineffective. Most patients with this sort of injury will need to be on a mechanical ventilator for days to weeks and there is a high death rate. One positive thing, recent studies on how to adjust the various pressures on the mechanical ventilator has improved the chances of survival.
if you are talking about ARDS?? its acute respipratory distress syndrome not adult
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/Ards/Ards_WhatIs.html
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Adult respiratory distress syndrome is synonymous with acute respiratory distress syndrome and is a descriptive term for a fairly massive rapid onset of severe lung injury. There are a number of things which can cause this sort of injury in the lung: infection, fume inhalation injury, autoimmune diseases, trauma, and others. The lung injury causes damage to the alveoli (the numerous air-sacs in the lung) causing them to become leaky and ineffective. Most patients with this sort of injury will need to be on a mechanical ventilator for days to weeks and there is a high death rate. One positive thing, recent studies on how to adjust the various pressures on the mechanical ventilator has improved the chances of survival.
References :
N Engl J Med. 2000 May 4;342(18):1301-8.