Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome eMedicine (Health/Respiratory_Disorders)
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Description: Information on the background, diagnosis and treatment of this disorder.Respiratory... Distress Syndrome, Adult Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a diffuse pulmonary parenchymal injury associated with noncardiogenic pulmonary edema and resulting in severe respiratory distress and hypoxemic respiratory failure. The pathologic hallmark is diffuse alveolar damage (DAD), but lung tissue rarely is available for a pathologic diagnosis. Therefore, diagnosis is made on clinical grounds, according to the following criteria set forth by the AmericanEuropean Consensus Conference: Acute onset Bilateral infiltrates Pulmonary artery wedge pressure less than 19
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