Severe acute respiratory syndrome

Introduction Acute respiratory distress syndrome, also known as ARDS, is the abrupt collapse of the respiratory system. It can advance in anyone 1 year and older who is critically ill. An individual with ARDS has accelerated breathing, difficulty getting adequate air into the lungs and decreased blood oxygen levels. ARDS normally develops in people who have major injuries or already ill with another disease. ARDS is usually a hospital acquired disease. ARDS is normally grouped with an almost indistinguishable

Introduction: Acute corrosive poisonings are caused by ingestion of corrosive chemicals which are most commonly used as household agents. Intoxications with these kind of agents produce numerous and severe post-corrosive complications of the upper gastrointestinal tract. On the other hand, our experience showed that corrosive agents may also cause injuries of the respiratory system, which makes the treatment very hard and additionally complicates the severe clinical condition of the patient. Objective:

take a breath, how we are able to use that breath to sustain life. As a breath is taken in, there’s many different physical and gas laws that take place to allow it to happen. With Hooke’s law I will be discussing what it is, how it relates to respiratory care, and the medical advances it may include. Hooke’s law was named after the man that discovered it in 1660. Robert Hooke was a 17th century physicist who discovered the relationship between the forces applied to a spring and elasticity. He published

For the past 50 years acute respiratory distress syndrome or better known as ARDS, has been an issue in hospital intensive care units all around the world. The first “documented published scientific description dates back to 1821 when Laennec described the gross pathology of the heart and lungs and described idiopathic anasarca of the lungs; pulmonary edema without heart failure in a treatise on diseases of the chest.”1 Cardiac and non-cardiac issues were not taken into consideration as part of the

that mechanical ventilation can cause severe lung injury if over-distention occurs (Roupie et al., 1995). To make the matter even worse, the very patients that need mechanical ventilation the most, patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome for example, are especially susceptible to over-distention and therefore, lung injury (Stewart et al., 1998). The main reason that patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome or respiratory distress syndrome are in higher risk of lung injury is

of early (< 2 hours) and delayed (> 2 hours) surfactant administration, (Richard playka et al., 2002). It has been deduced that early selective surfactant administration to infants with RDS requiring assisted ventilation leads to a reduced risk of acute pulmonary injury and a decreased risk of

Severe myocarditis and pulmonary edema following scorpion bite: a case report Abstract: The scorpion sting is still one of major public health hazard in tropical, sub-tropical, coastal and rural areas of India. Most of the scorpion stings are associated with simple clinical features like pain, edema, numbness and tenderness at site of sting. Sometime it causes severe or life-threatening complication including cardio toxicity, neurotoxicity and acute pulmonary edema or acute respiratory distress syndrome

in Neonates with Respiratory Distress Syndrome Type The innovation of surfactant replacement therapy in the treatment of respiratory distress syndrome has proven to increase the survival and minimize the complications of the premature neonate. Replacing surfactant has lessened time on ventilators, and allowing the neonate and parents an opportunity to grow together earlier outside of intensive care. This paper will discuss the etiology of respiratory distress syndrome type I, the treatment

System Setup ii. Nebulization of Drugs iii. Cost iv. Difficulty of Use IV. Indications for Bubble CPAP in Neonatal Patient a. Neonatal Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS) i. Definition of Neonatal RDS ii. Characteristics of RDS in Different Gestational Ages 1. Diagnosis 2. Causes 3. Risks 4. Clinical Management 5. Morbidity b. Idiopathic Respiratory Distress Syndrome (IRDS) i. Definition 1. Diagnosis 2. Causes 3. Risks 4. Clinical Management 5. Morbidity c. Meconium Aspiration i. Definition 1. Diagnosis

a common practice in the intensive care unit (ICU). Normal saline instillation is used to decrease the viscosity of mucous in order to mobilize secretions and aid in suctioning mechanically ventilated patients in the intensive care units. Many respiratory therapists and nurses are currently using saline with endotracheal suctioning without an adequate knowledge of any existing evidence-based research or recommendation to guide the practice. The purpose of this study was to investigate and determine