RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 What's Next After ARDS: Long-Term Outcomes
JF Respiratory Care
FD American Association for Respiratory Care
SP 689
OP 699
DO 10.4187/respcare.04644
VO 61
IS 5
A1 Chiumello, Davide
A1 Coppola, Silvia
A1 Froio, Sara
A1 Gotti, Miriam
YR 2016
UL http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/61/5/689.abstract
AB ARDS is a life-threatening organ failure due to several pulmonary and extrapulmonary injuries with an incidence between 5 and 60 cases/100,000 persons/y. Patients with ARDS have non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema and dyspnea often requiring invasive mechanical ventilation and intensive care admission. Although the short-term mortality rate has significantly decreased in the last decade, mainly due to the widespread application of lung-protective ventilation and better general support, long-term outcomes are still unsatisfactory. Besides simply evaluating the outcome at hospital discharge, several recent studies have assessed the health-related quality of life, neuropsychological disability, radiological findings, and pulmonary dysfunction up to 5 y. This paper reviews the literature regarding the long-term outcomes in patients with ARDS.