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Bookmark or Share- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) - Cleveland ClinicAcute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a lung injury that happens when fluids build up in small air sacs (alveoli) in your lungs. ARDS prevents your lungs from filling up with air and causes dangerously low oxygen levels in your blood (hypoxia).
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome - WikipediaAcute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a type of respiratory failure characterized by rapid onset of widespread inflammation in the lungs. [1] Symptoms include shortness of breath (dyspnea), rapid breathing (tachypnea), and bluish skin coloration (cyanosis). [ 1 ]
- ARDS - EMCrit ProjectARDS isn't a single disease, but rather a collection of dozens of different diseases – anything which causes acute, diffuse parenchymal lung failure. In this way, ARDS is similar to “acute kidney injury.” Historically, ARDS has often been equated with a specific form of histological inflammation (diffuse alveolar damage with hyaline membranes).
- What Is Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome? - NHLBI, NIHAcute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a serious lung condition that causes low blood oxygen. People who develop ARDS are usually ill due to another disease or a major injury. In ARDS, fluid builds up inside the tiny air sacs of the lungs, and surfactant breaks down.
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome: Clinical features ... - UpToDateAcute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is an acute, diffuse, inflammatory form of lung injury that is associated with a variety of etiologies. Recognizing and promptly treating ARDS is critical to reduce the associated high mortality. The clinical presentation, diagnostic evaluation, and complications of ARDS are reviewed here.
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