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Pictures. >ards is essentially acute lung inflammation as a result of sepsis, pneumonia, (these two causes account for 60% of cases), trauma or aspiration. Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ards) is a form of acute lung injury and occurs as a result of a severe pulmonary injury that causes alveolar damage heterogeneously throughout the lung.
>ards is essentially acute lung inflammation as a result of sepsis, pneumonia, (these two causes account for 60% of cases), trauma or aspiration. Ards defined from the berlin criteria absence of pneumothorax on the cxr before the study Ards was first described by ashbaugh and petty in 1967 in a case series of 12 icu patients. Tags nursing, acute respiratory distress syndrome, pulmonary artery, respiratory distress syndrome, ards, complex care.