Video of ARDS Survivor Abbi taken at the 2nd Annual Hike for Lung Health talking about her experience with ARDS. Check out Abb’s website
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where she created a number of drawings for those who donated to her efforts. Abbi also has an exhibition of her work. Abbi is obviously an inspriation!
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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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The Respiratory Health ociation’s second annual Hike for Lung Health was MC’d by WLS News Anchor Ravi Baichwal, whose own father had ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome) and later succumbed to pulmonary fibrosis. Here are his opening statements.
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ARDS Foundation joined the Respiratory Health ociation and many other lung organizations in Chicago for their second annual Hike for Lung Health. The event helped to raise awareness and funds for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) a syndrome that almost 200,000 Americans are diagnosed with and almost half of them do not survive.
For more information about ARDS, please visit ArdsUSA.org
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To be sure, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a very serious issue, but we still had a lot of fun working on this amazing video project that we hope will help to raise awareness, education, and inform. And as soon as the finished project is complete, we will post that!
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