ARDS X-Ray Progression on CBS Morning Show
In talking about the swine flu, CBS’s Morning Show utilized the chest films from ARDS Foundation (x-ray progression) that illustrates the speed within which the lungs shut down in ARDS. When someone gets critically ill from swine flu, ends up on a ventilator, it is acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) that is what makes that patient so ill, or, sadly, may be what would kill that same patient. It is just like the SARS epidemic; SARS was the precipitating cause to ARDS just like this flu is the precipitating cause to ARDS.
The films are a wonderful illustration to the layman as to how quickly ARDS strikes, shuts down the lungs, and can kill.
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