Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

<p>The only available text to focus primarily on Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS).</p><p>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.</p><p>Highlights include:</p><ul> <ul> </ul> <li>the definition epidemiology pathology and pathogenesis of ARDS</li> <li>complications such as transfusion-related injury and endothelium and vascular dysfunction</li> <li>the long-term outcomes of ARDS</li> <li>host defense and infection</li> <li>the latest developments in ARDS therapy: glucocorticoid therapy surfactant therapy mechanical ventilation and mesenchymal stem cells</li> <li>predictive factors: gene expression profiling and biomarkers and chemokines and cytokines</li> <li>advances in management strategies: fluid management non-pulmonary and non-sepsis management and glucose control</li> </ul>