Acute respiratory distress syndrome is a form of non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema, due to alveolar injury secondary to an inflammatory process, that can be either pulmonary or systemic in origin. This ...

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Definitions of hypoxaemia, hypoxia, type 1 respiratory failure and hyperoxaemia Definition of hypercapnia and type 2 respiratory failure Definition of acidosis (respiratory acidosis and metabolic ...