Adult respiratory distress syndrome

Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS for short) is a type of progressive respiratory distress and difficult to correct when the patient's original cardiopulmonary function is normal, such as severe trauma, burns, shock, infection, major surgery, etc. Hypoxemia is characterized by acute pulmonary circulation disordered respiratory failure. Clinical features are progressive hypoxemia and respiratory distress. This disease mostly occurs in healthy people who have no obvious lung disease in the past. Loss of lung compliance and diffuse intrapulmonary invasive lesions caused by acute lung injury caused by a variety of internal and external factors. Although the causes are different, the pathological and functional changes of lung tissue damage are roughly the same. The clinical manifestations are acute respiratory distress and refractory hypoxemia, because they are clinically similar to infant respiratory distress symptoms, and their etiology and pathogenesis They are not the same, so they are called "adults" to show the difference. It is now noticed that the eigen also occurs in children, so European and American scholars collaborated to reach a consensus and replaced the adult with acute, which is called acute respiratory distress syndrome, and the abbreviation is ARDS.

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