Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

📖What is Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome?

Acute respiratory distress syndrome, commonly abbreviated ARDS, is a severe, life-threatening lung condition in which widespread inflammation causes fluid to leak into the air sacs of the lungs, severely impairing the lungs' ability to transfer oxygen into the bloodstream. It typically develops rapidly, within hours to days, following a serious illness or injury such as severe pneumonia, sepsis, major trauma, or aspiration of stomach contents, and represents the lungs' extreme inflammatory response to these triggers rather than a primary lung disease itself. Patients with ARDS often require mechanical ventilation in an intensive care unit to support breathing while the underlying cause is treated and the lungs are given time to heal. Despite modern treatment advances, ARDS carries a significant risk of death and long-term complications in survivors.

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