Diagnosaurus
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
Etiology
Systemic insults
- Trauma, sepsis, shock, burns
- Pancreatitis
- Multiple transfusions
- DIC, TTP
- Drugs: opioids, aspirin, phenothiazines, tricyclic antidepressants, amiodarone, chemotherapeutics, nitrofurantoin, protamine
- Cardiopulmonary bypass
- Head injury
- Paraquat
- Aspiration of gastric contents
- Embolism of thrombus, fat, air, or amniotic fluid
- Miliary tuberculosis
- Diffuse pneumonia
- Acute eosinophilic pneumonia
- Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP)
- Upper airway obstruction
- Freebase cocaine smoking
- Near-drowning
- Toxic gas inhalation: nitrogen dioxide, chlorine, sulfur dioxide, ammonia, smoke inhalation
- Oxygen toxicity
- Lung contusion
- Radiation
- High altitude exposure
- Lung re-expansion or reperfusion
DDx
- Cardiogenic (hydrostatic) pulmonary edema
- Pneumonia
- Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage
- Bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia (BOOP)
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Zeiger, Roni F.. "Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)." Diagnosaurus, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2015. Medicine Central, im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Diagnosaurus/114775/all/Acute_respiratory_distress_syndrome__ARDS_.
Zeiger RFR. Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2015. https://im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Diagnosaurus/114775/all/Acute_respiratory_distress_syndrome__ARDS_. Accessed March 23, 2023.
Zeiger, R. F. (2015). Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). In Diagnosaurus (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. https://im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Diagnosaurus/114775/all/Acute_respiratory_distress_syndrome__ARDS_
Zeiger RFR. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) [Internet]. In: Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2015. [cited 2023 March 23]. Available from: https://im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Diagnosaurus/114775/all/Acute_respiratory_distress_syndrome__ARDS_.
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