Prevention of acute respiratory distress syndrome.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose of review

The paucity of effective therapeutic interventions in patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) combined with overwhelming evidence on the importance of timely implementation of effective therapies to critically ill patients has resulted in a recent shift in ARDS research. Increasingly, efforts are being directed toward early identification of patients at risk with a goal of prevention and early treatment, prior to development of the fully established syndrome. The focus of the present review is on the prevention of ARDS in patients without this condition at the time of their healthcare encounter.

Recent findings

The primary thematic categories presented in the present review article include early identification of patients at risk of dev

SUBMITTER: Festic E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4431656 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature