Acute respiratory distress syndrome

master's thesis

• Title: Acute respiratory distress syndrome : patophysiology an new treatment approaches
• Author: Corey Alexander Kull
• Mentor: Mladen Perić (mentor)
• Committee member: Ante Sekulić (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: DINKO TONKOVIĆ (član povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Mladen Perić (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; School of Medicine; (Department of Anaesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Care in Surgical Specialities); Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2014-07-15, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: BIOMEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE; Clinical Medical Sciences; Anesthesiology and Reanimatology

Abstract

The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is a well-known
pathology in critical care medicine. ARDS can result from many pulmonary and
non-pulmonary pathological insults. It is characterised by intractable hypoxia,
diffuse alveolar damage, accumulation of protein rich alveolar fluid, and it can
lead to multiple organ failure. The lack of objective clinical diagnostic tests and
disease specific treatments are the reasons that ARDS remains a clinical
diagnosis with high mortality. This challenge is met with multi-centre task forces
assembled specifically to address current practices. Many current treatments and
diagnostic algorithms, namely the Berlin definition of ARDS, have come from
such cooperation. Indispensible in the treatment of ARDS is low volume
mechanical ventilation with avoidance of excessive airway pressures, which is
know as lung protective ventilation. Its role as well as the role of current
supportive treatments including: fluid management, extracorporeal membrane
oxygenation, sedation, neuromuscular blocking agents, and recruitment
manoeuvres will be discussed.

• Keywords: acute respiratory distress syndrome; diagnosis; therapy
• Language: english
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:105:567436
• Study programme: Title: Medicine (in English language); Study programme type: university; Study level: integrated undergraduate and graduate; Academic / professional title: doktor/doktorica medicine (doktor/doktorica medicine)
• Type of resource: Text
• File origin: Born digital
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2015-12-03 12:53:19