Acute lung injury - from pathophysiology to treatment.

Physiol Res

Department of Physiology, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine in Martin, Comenius University in Bratislava, Martin, Slovak Republic.

Published: December 2020

Acute lung injury is characterized by acute respiratory insufficiency with tachypnea, cyanosis refractory to oxygen, decreased lung compliance, and diffuse alveolar infiltrates on chest X-ray. The 1994 American-European Consensus Conference defined "acute respiratory distress syndrome, ARDS" by acute onset after a known trigger, severe hypoxemia defined by PaO2/FiO2

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