Erschienen in:
01.11.2006 | Editorial
Expanding our horizons beyond the intensive care unit: does mechanism of lung injury influence the quality of life in ARDS survivors?
verfasst von:
Salvatore Maurizio Maggiore, Massimo Antonelli
Erschienen in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 11/2006
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Excerpt
The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is one of the most severe form of acute respiratory failure and an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the intensive care unit (ICU). Only recently, progress in understanding the complex pathophysiology of lung injury has allowed an improvement in outcome [
1]. Not surprisingly, most of clinical studies on ARDS have focused on mortality and recovery of physiological lung function [
2,
3,
4]. However, as short-term mortality of ARDS has declined over the past decade [
5,
6], knowledge of long-term outcomes in survivors, including quality of life (QOL) and conditions that affect that quality, are needed [
7]. …