Vaping-Associated Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Case Classification and Clinical Guidance.

ABSTRACT: Exposure to vaping is associated with a growing list of respiratory syndromes including an acute progressive form with life-threatening hypoxemic respiratory failure and pathologic changes of lung injury termed vaping-associated respiratory distress syndrome.

Data sources

Center from Disease Control, Departments of Public Health, MEDLINE (via PubMed), and the Cochrane Library.

Study selection data extraction and data synthesis

Cases, series, and public health reports of cases that met the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention case definition of vaping-associated respiratory disease were extracted by an author with perfect verification by a second. Cases were classified on the basis of toxin exposure, symptoms, oxygen saturation, progression to respiratory failure, and pa

SUBMITTER: Lilly CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7069591 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature