
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, An Issue of Critical Care Clinics
- 1st Edition, Volume 37-4 - September 22, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Michael Matthay, Kathleen Dori Liu
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 9 4 6 4 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 9 4 6 5 - 7
This issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Michael Matthay and Kathleen Dori Lui, focuses on Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. This is one of four issues each… Read more

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Request a sales quoteThis issue of Critical Care Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Michael Matthay and Kathleen Dori Lui, focuses on Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. This is one of four issues each year selected by the series consulting editor, Dr. John Kellum. Articles in this issue include, but are not limited to: Epidemiology, Environmental Factors, Clinical Diagnosis, Physiology of ARDS, including COVID-19, Pathogenesis Based on Clinical Studies, Genetics of ARDS, Ventilator Management and Rescue Therapy with ECMO, Acute Kidney Injury and ARDS, Pharmacologic Therapies and ARDS and Long Term Outcomes from ARDS.
- Provides in-depth, clinical reviews on ARDS, providing actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field; Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Preface
- The Epidemiology of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Before and After Coronavirus Disease 2019
- Key points
- Introduction
- Etiology
- Subtypes
- Incidence
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome-associated mortality
- Long-term outcomes
- COVID-19
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Environmental Factors
- Key points
- Introduction
- Air pollution
- Wildfires
- Cigarette smoke
- Diagnosis and management implications
- Public health strategies and knowledge gaps
- Clinics care points
- Toward Optimal Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Outcomes: Recognizing the Syndrome and Identifying Its Causes
- Key points
- Introduction and importance of the problem
- Definitions and their limitations
- Recognizing the syndrome of acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Recognizing acute respiratory distress syndrome is just the start: Diagnosing the cause of acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Practical suggestions for identifying acute respiratory distress syndrome and making the specific diagnosis
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Pathophysiology of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and COVID-19 Lung Injury
- Key points
- Pathophysiology of acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Pathophysiology of COVID-19 lung injury
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- COVID-19–Associated Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Lessons from Tissues and Cells
- Key points
- Introduction
- Overview of the pathology of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 pneumonia
- Diffuse alveolar damage: the signature but nonspecific histologic pattern of classic acute respiratory distress syndrome and coronavirus disease 2019 lung injury
- Alveolar immune effector cells in coronavirus disease 2019–associated lung injury
- Vasculopathy and thromboinflammation are common in classic acute respiratory distress syndrome and coronavirus disease 2019 lung infection
- Pulmonary coinfection in coronavirus disease 2019 pneumonia: a common phenotype
- Animal models: experimental correlates and consistent histopathology
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Pathophysiology of the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Insights from Clinical Studies
- Key points
- Clinical diagnosis of acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Histopathology in acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Clinical radiology in acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Biomarkers in acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Genomics and transcriptomics in acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Insights from novel biological measurement systems
- Microbiome in acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Coronavirus disease 2019
- Future directions
- Clinics care points
- Genetics of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Pathways to Precision
- Key points
- Introduction
- Unique hurdles for acute respiratory distress syndrome genomics
- Identifying genes conferring individual risk
- Gene expression: is it the message that counts?
- Inferring causality of quantitative traits using genomics
- Metagenomics: commensals and pathogens
- Summary
- Disclosure
- Acute Kidney Injury and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- Key points
- Introduction
- Definitions of acute kidney injury
- Clinical outcomes of acute kidney injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome
- The effect of acute kidney injury on the lungs
- The effect of acute respiratory distress syndrome on the kidneys
- Treatment strategies for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome and acute kidney injury
- Acute kidney injury and SARS-CoV-2: current knowledge
- Summary
- Critical care points
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Ventilator Management and Rescue Therapies
- Key points
- Introduction
- Lung protective ventilatory management
- Positive end-expiratory pressure and open lung approaches
- Recruitment maneuvers
- Driving pressure and other considerations with ventilator management
- Other ventilator modes
- Rescue therapies
- Coronavirus disease 2019 and acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Summary
- Fluid Therapy and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- Key points
- Introduction
- Clinics care points
- Pharmacologic Treatments for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- Key points
- Introduction
- Commonly used therapies
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Long-Term Outcomes in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Epidemiology, Mechanisms, and Patient Evaluation
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 37-4
- Published: September 22, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323794640
- eBook ISBN: 9780323794657