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01-03-2015 | Year in Review 2014
Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine 2014: II. ARDS, airway management, ventilation, adjuvants in sepsis, hepatic failure, symptoms assessment and management, palliative care and support for families, prognostication, organ donation, outcome, organisation and research methodology
Authors:
Anders Perner, Giuseppe Citerio, Jan Bakker, Matteo Bassetti, Dominique Benoit, Maurizio Cecconi, J. Randall Curtis, Gordon S. Doig, Margaret Herridge, Samir Jaber, Michael Joannidis, Laurent Papazian, Mark J. Peters, Pierre Singer, Martin Smith, Marcio Soares, Antoni Torres, Antoine Vieillard-Baron, Jean-François Timsit, Elie Azoulay
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Intensive Care Medicine
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Issue 3/2015
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Prognosis of ARDS is not only related to physiological alterations and therapeutic strategies but to the underlying disease. Patients with malignancies and ARDS have received less attention. Outcomes were studied in a huge cohort of more than 1,000 patients with mainly haematological malignancies and infection-induced ARDS [
1]. The most important point was that survival improved over time. The authors outlined the fact that non-invasive ventilation was used in 30 % of the patients but failed in 70 % of these. An important point corroborating epidemiological studies done in other categories of patients with acute respiratory failure was that non-invasive ventilation failure was associated with a worse outcome. …