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Original Source: Therapies for refractory hypoxemia in acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a common and severe form of acute lung injury, resulting from both direct (eg, pneumonia) and indirect (eg, sepsis) pulmonary insults. It is a common cause of admission to the intensive care unit due to hypoxemic respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation, and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. In some patients, ARDS leads to the development of life-threatening refractory hypoxemia. In these patients, physicians may consider a numb...
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Hypoxemia with increased AaDo2
Ventricular fibrillation produces uncoordinated quivering of the ventricle with no useful contractions. It causes immediate syncope and death within minutes. Treatment is with cardiopulmonary resusc...
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Definition of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
To the Editor: The ARDS Definition Task Force presented a consensus draft definition developed by a panel of experts. They proposed 3 categories of ARDS based on degree of hypoxemia and, using a large...
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome The Berlin Definition The Berlin Definition of ARDS
The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) was defined in 1994 by the American-European Consensus Conference (AECC); since then, issues regarding the reliability and validity of this definition ha...
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ContextMany patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA) living near sea level travel to altitude, but this may expose them to hypoxemia and exacerbation of sleep apnea. The treatment in this...
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The incidence of hypoxemia during surgery: evidence from two institutions.
PURPOSE: The incidence of hypoxemia in patients undergoing surgery is largely unknown and may have a clinical impact. The objective of this study was to determine the incidence of intraoperative hypox...
BACKGROUND: Postoperative hypoxemia is a common complication in the anesthesia recovery room (ARR), which is predominantly based on the development of atelectasis, excessive intraoperative fluid shift...
Therapies for refractory hypoxemia in acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a common and severe form of acute lung injury, resulting from both direct (eg, pneumonia) and indirect (eg, sepsis) pulmonary insults. It is a common caus...
INTRODUCTION: Monitoring ventilated infants is difficult during high-frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV). This study tested the possible causes of hypoxemic episodes using a new method for monito...
Management of Acute Lung Injury/ARDS.
Acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) are disorders of pulmonary inflammation characterized by hypoxemia and respiratory failure. Children have varying incidence of AL...
