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Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), also known as respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) or adult respiratory distress syndrome is a severe lung disease which usually follows a severe illness or injury, occurring usually within the first 24 to 48 hours. ARDS arises when the tiny air sacs (alveoli) and blood vessels in your lungs becoming damaged, allowing blood to leak into the sacs. This disease can lead to hypoxemia and in the worst case scenario multiple organ failure, increasing the chances permanent pulmonary edema. It is a life threatening condition , usually requiring the patient to have ventilation and admission into an intensive care unit. Research into ARDS has shown that mortality varies from 30% to 60%.

Causes and leading factors of ARDS include: severe pneumonia, severe low blood pressure, blood clot in your lungs, inflammation of your pancreas (pancreatitis),overdose of drugs such as aspirin, heroin, inhaling smoke or toxic chemicals such as ammonia, nearly drowning, burns to your chest, or other chest injury.hypoxemia, neurologic abnormalities such as mental confusion, malaria, and sepsis.

Symptoms are

shortness of breath,
tachypnea,
breathing difficulties,c
yanosis (when the skin turns a bluish colour because there is lack of oxygen in the blood),
rapid heart rate.

To confirm a diagnosis a physician conducts a chest X-ray to see if there is fluid in the lungs, and takes a blood sample to measure the oxygen content. The treatmentis toraise the oxygen levels the underlying cause of the ARDS

Treatment

Oxygen to treat low oxygen levels.

sedative drugs to calm the person down and reduce the feeling of shortness of breath

diuretic drugs to help remove the fluid from your lungs

Anti-inflammatory drugs to reduce inflammation in your lungs

Food and water intravenously to avoid dehydration
Antibiotics- if it ARDS was caused by infection

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