RT Book, Section A1 Tawil, Isaac A1 Miskimins, Richard J. A1 Dellinger, R. Phillip A2 Farcy, David A. A2 Chiu, William C. A2 Marshall, John P. A2 Osborn, Tiffany M. SR Print(0) ID 1135700234 T1 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) T2 Critical Care Emergency Medicine, 2e YR 2016 FD 2016 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071838764 LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1135700234 RD 2024/03/28 AB The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), first identified by Ashbaugh et al. in 1967, described a constellation of findings in 12 patients who had experienced acute onset of tachypnea, hypoxemia, loss of lung compliance, cyanosis refractory to oxygen therapy, and diffuse alveolar infiltration on chest radiograph. Pathologic examination from seven of these patients found atelectasis, vascular congestion with hemorrhage, hyaline membranes, and pulmonary edema.1