Ards gray

• 1.Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Alice Gray, MD Duke University Medical Center March 21, 2007

2. Objectives

• Define ARDS and describe the pathological process

• Know causes of ARDS, and differential diagnosis

• Understand specific challenges in mechanical ventilation of patients with ARDS

• Understand treatment strategies and evidence behind them

3. ARDS

• First described 1967 by Ashbaugh and colleagues

• Severe lung injury characterized by non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema, decreased lung compliance, refractory hypoxemia

• 1994 Consensus Definition

• • Acute onset (