Catalog

Acute respiratory distress syndrome

Link to WHO Definition

Acute respiratory distress syndrome – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1189702844

Acute respiratory distress syndrome ("ARDS") is a life-threatening inflammation with oedema in the lungs which leads to severe respiratory failure. ARDS is a clinical syndrome of lung injury with hypoxic respiratory failure caused by intense pulmonary inflammation that develops after a severe physiologic insult.

Parents

Respiratory diseases principally affecting the lung interstitium

Children

Adult acute respiratory distress syndrome
KB23.0 Respiratory distress syndrome of newborn