Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (Lung Biology in Health and Disease)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: November 20, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 616
ISBN-13: 9780824783594
Subjects: Respiratory medicine; Respiratory Distress Syndrome,; Respiratory Diseases; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult; Cardiology; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Medical / Cardiology; Internal Medicine
First sentence: From the earliest reports of the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), it was clear that such clinical predispositions as traumatic injury or sepsis commonly preceded the onset of respiratory failure and appeared to act as a "trigger," initiating a complex sequence of events that culminated in the physiologic abnormalities by which we define ARDS.