From the Department of Anesthesia, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto,
Ont. 8 per 100 000 population annually. The consensus conference divided the risk factors …

Posttraumatic pulmonary failure was recognized as early as World War I, 49 but the
syndrome was not referred to as the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) until …

The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a process of acute inflammatory lung
injury that affects a diverse array of surgical and medical patients. The incidence …

The morphologic picture and lung mechanics are quite different between early and late
phases of the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Although these patients rarely …

The ARDS is characterized by the presence of an acute direct or indirect damage to the
lungs followed within 24–72 hours by respiratory distress, arterial hypoxaemia, reduced …

Acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS, was ini-tially described after experience with
traumatically injured patients in the Vietnam War era. 1, 2 More recently, the 1994 American …

In 1967, Ashbaugh et al [1] defined the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in
adults. In their classic article they studied a cohort of 272 adult patients who were receiving …

First described in 1967, ARDS is a process of hypoxaemic respiratory failure associated with
non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema. It is the result of diffuse inflammatory damage to the …

Acute lung injury and the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ALI/ARDS) frequently
develop in patients with already established nonpulmonary organ failure (1, 2). Furthermore …

The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a devastating injury to the lungs,
characterized by dif-fuse pulmonary inflammation, hypoxemia, and respira-tory distress. Its …