RT Book, Section
A1 Tawil, Isaac
A1 Garcia, Megan
A2 Farcy, David A.
A2 Chiu, William C.
A2 Flaxman, Alex
A2 Marshall, John P.
SR Print(0)
ID 55810878
T1 Chapter 9. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
T2 Critical Care Emergency Medicine
YR 2012
FD 2012
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-162824-2
LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55810878
RD 2024/04/18
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  x-ray.  Pathologic  examination  from  seven  of  these  patients  found  atelectasis,  vascular  congestion  with  hemorrhage,  hyaline  membranes,  and  pulmonary  edema.1