Published in:
01-04-2019 | Understanding the Disease
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) phenotyping
Authors:
M. Shankar-Hari, E. Fan, N. D. Ferguson
Published in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Issue 4/2019
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Excerpt
Clinically, the Berlin ARDS definition describes acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) as acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure that is not fully explained by cardiac failure or fluid overload, that develops within 7 days of clinical recognition of a known risk factor, with bilateral radiographic opacities that are not fully explained by effusions, lobar/lung collapse, or nodules. Three risk strata were defined on the basis of the severity of hypoxaemia represented by the ratio of partial pressure of oxygen in arterial blood to inspired oxygen concentration (PaO
2/FiO
2 ratio), assessed at a minimum positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) of 5 cmH
2O [
1]. Hospital mortality worsens with severity of hypoxaemia and thus grade of ARDS (from 35% in mild ARDS to 46% in severe ARDS) [
1,
2]. …