Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Paperback / softback Book

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Paperback / softback

Edited by Augustine M.K. (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA) Choi

Part of the Lung Biology in Health and Disease series

Paperback / softback

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The only available text to focus primarily on Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). Thoroughly revised content and ten new chapters provide pulmonologists with the latest developments and applications of pharmacological and mechanical therapies needed to treat the debilitating and difficult condition of ARDS. Highlights include: the definition, epidemiology, pathology, and pathogenesis of ARDScomplications such as transfusion-related injury, and endothelium and vascular dysfunctionthe long-term outcomes of ARDShost defense and infectionthe latest developments in ARDS therapy: glucocorticoid therapy, surfactant therapy, mechanical ventilation, and mesenchymal stem cellspredictive factors: gene expression profiling and biomarkers, and chemokines and cytokinesadvances in management strategies: fluid management, non-pulmonary and non-sepsis management, and glucose control

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