ACUTE RESPIRATORY

DISTRESS SYNDROME.

CASE PRESENTATION OF
MR. SHIFIL WITH ARDS.
CLINICAL FINDINGS.
DEFINITION.

It’s a sudden progressive form

of respiratory failure
characterized by severe
dyspnoea, refractory hypoxemia
and diffuse bilateral infiltrates.
ARDS is a sudden progressive
form of acute respiratory
failure in which the alveolar
capillary membrane becomes
damaged and more permeable
to intra vascular fluid.
ETIOLOGY
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