ARDS

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) refers to acute, progressive hypoxic respiratory failure that occurs after internal and external lung attacks such as severe infection, trauma, and shock. The main manifestation of alveolar capillary injury is acute lung injury (ALI), which is a severe stage or type. Its clinical features are respiratory rate and distress, progressive hypoxemia, and diffuse alveolar infiltration on X-rays. This disease is quite similar to infant respiratory distress syndrome, but its etiology and pathogenesis are different, so the name of adult respiratory distress syndrome is proposed. Now called acute respiratory distress syndrome, the abbreviation is still ARDS.

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