The acute respiratory distress syndrome is the clinical presentation of acute lung injury characterized by diffuse alveolar damage and development of non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema due to increased pulmonary alveolar-capillary membrane permeability. Alveolar recruitment maneuvers and prone position can be used in the treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome. The objective of this revie...

Although the antifibrinolysin test as originally described (1) is only qualitative in nature (2), it has proved valuable in the study of infections caused by the f8-hemolytic streptococcus. However, the results obtained by different investigators have been difficult to interpret primarily because of failure to control the various factors participating in the fibrinolysin-antifibrinolysin reacti...

The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a serious and complex clinical problem that often threatens the lives of patients. Emerging clinical data suggest that the survival of patients with this disorder may have improved during the last two decades, presumably because of advances in supportive medical care. Among the supportive therapies used to treat patients with ARDS, none is more ...

ten, and contained information relevant for clinicians. Chapter 26, which covered positron emission tomography (PET), was surprisingly thin, especially given the robust amount of recently published information on PET in lung cancer diagnosis and staging. More information on PET technique, examples of PET/computed-tomography fusion images, and clinically-oriented recommendations (eg, when should...

INTRODUCTION Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is characterised by lung inflammation with severe hypoxia, which usually develops over 4-48 hours and persists for days or weeks. The main causes of ARDS are infections, aspiration of gastric contents, and trauma. Between a third and a half of people with ARDS die from the disease, but mortality depends on the underlying cause. Some surviv...

The Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) CD Module is the latest educational offering by The Wellcome Trust, a British-based charity. The module is part of the Topics in International Health CD-ROM series. The entire program is designed to provide accessible, current, high-quality information on tropical and international health. The material is directed towards students, teachers, health-care pro...

The new variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2- A grave situation in a pandemic - IJIRM- Print ISSN No: 2581-4214 Online No:- 2581-4222 Article DOI 10.18231/j.ijirm.2021.001, IP Indian Journal Immunology and Respiratory Medicine-IP J Immunol Respir Med