Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, An Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine , 2014 Original PDF

This issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine is devoted to Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, and it includes articles on such subjects as Early Acute Lung Injury, Epidemiology and Definitions of ARDS, Environmental Risk Factors for ARDS, Obesity and Nutrition, Clinical and Biological Heterogeneity in ARDS: Direct vs. Indirect Lung Injury, Important Immunomodulators in ARDS? Beyond SNPs: Genetic, Genomics, and Other Omic Approaches to ARDS; Clinical Approach to the Patient with ARDS; The Immunocompromised Patient with ARDS: Role of Invasive Diagnostic Strategies; Clinical Trial Design in Prevention and Treatment of ARDS; Beyond Low Tidal Volume-Ventilating the Patient with ARDS; Prone Positioning in ARDS; and more.