For patients who have been critically injured, acute respiratory distress syndrome
(ARDS) represents the first step on the final common pathway to death. The lung, when
compromised from a variety of direct and secondary stressors, exhibits a pathophysiology
that is uniform and classic. Pulmonary physiology is exquisitely sensitive to a systemic
inflammatory state, and the respiratory system is generally the first system to demonstrate
evidence that the patient is failing to meet the physiologic challenges of their injury.
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