ARDS

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)



Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome ARDS

Introduction

Acute respiratory distress syndrome is a kind of respiratory (lung) malfunction resulting from numerous distinct disorders that origin fluid to build up in the lungs and oxygen grades in the body-fluid to be too low.

The person experiences shortness of wind, generally with fast, superficial breathing, the skin may become mottled or azure (cyanosis) and other body components for example the heart and brain may malfunction.

A body-fluid experiment is taken from an artery and investigated to determine the grades of oxygen in the body-fluid, and a barrel x-ray is furthermore taken.

People are treated in an intensive care unit because they may require mechanical ventilation.

Oxygen is granted and the origin of the lung malfunction is treated.

The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a health danger. It may happen in people who currently have lung disease or in those with normal lungs too. This syndrome used to be called the Acute respiratory distress syndrome, it can also take place in children. The less severe pattern of this syndrome is called acute lung injury (ALI). (American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2009)

 

Causes

Any disease or status that injures the lungs can origin ARDS. More than half of the people with ARDS evolve it as an outcome of a severe, prevalent infection (sepsis) or pneumonia.

 

Causes of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Aspiration (inhalation) of nourishment into the lung

Burns

Coronary bypass surgery

Chest injury (pulmonary contusion)

Inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis)

Inhalation of large allowances of smoke

Inhalation of other harmful gas

Injury to the lungs from inhaling high concentrations of oxygen

Major trauma

Near drowning

Overdose of certain pharmaceuticals, for example heroin, methadone Some Trade Names

DOLOPHINE, propoxyphene Some Trade Names

DARVON, or aspirin Some Trade Names

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Pneumonia

Prolonged or severe reduced body-fluid pressure (shock)

Pulmonary embolism

Severe, prevalent infection (sepsis)

Stroke or seizure

Transfusions of more than about 15 flats of body-fluid in a short time span of time

When the little air sacs (alveoli) and tiny body-fluid vessels (capillaries) of the lungs are injured, body-fluid and fluid leak into the spaces between the air sacs and finally into the sacs themselves. Collapse of numerous alveoli (a status called atelectasis) may furthermore result because of a decrease in surfactant, a fluid that outer garments the inside exterior of the alveoli and assists to hold them open. Fluid in the alveoli and the disintegration of numerous alveoli interfere with the action of oxygen from inhaled air into the body-fluid, causing oxygen grades in the body-fluid ...