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Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)

Última revisão: 15 Aug 2025
Última atualização: 31 May 2024

Resumo

Definição

História e exame físico

Principais fatores diagnósticos

  • low oxygen saturation
  • acute respiratory failure
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Outros fatores diagnósticos

  • critically ill patient
  • dyspnea
  • increased respiratory rate
  • pulmonary crepitations
  • low lung compliance
  • fever, cough, pleuritic chest pain
  • frothy sputum
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Fatores de risco

  • sepsis
  • aspiration
  • pneumonia
  • severe trauma
  • blood transfusions
  • lung transplantation
  • pancreatitis
  • history of alcohol misuse
  • burns and smoke inhalation
  • drowning
  • e-cigarette and vaping product use
  • Immunotherapy
  • drug overdose
  • cigarette smoking
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Investigações diagnósticas

Primeiras investigações a serem solicitadas

  • chest x-ray
  • arterial blood gases
  • sputum culture
  • blood culture
  • urine culture
  • amylase and lipase
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Investigações a serem consideradas

  • brain natriuretic peptide (BNP)
  • echocardiogram
  • pulmonary artery catheterization
  • bronchoalveolar lavage or endotracheal aspirate
  • CT scan of the thorax
  • Lung ultrasound
  • viral testing
  • open lung biopsy
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Algoritmo de tratamento

AGUDA

all patients

Colaboradores

Autores

Lorraine B. Ware, MD
Lorraine B. Ware

Ralph and Lulu Owen Professor of Medicine

Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Director

Vanderbilt Medical Scholars Program

Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Department of Medicine

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Nashville

TN

Declarações

LBW has received consulting fees from Arrowhead, Akebia, Santhera, and Global Blood Therapeutics, all unrelated to the topic of this article. LBW has received research funding (to her institution) from the US National Institutes of Health, Boerhinger Ingelheim, and Genetech Inc., unrelated to the topic of this article. LBW holds stock in Virtuoso Surgical, unrelated to the topic of this article.

Agradecimentos

Dr Lorraine Ware would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Richard Fremont, a previous contributor to this topic.

Declarações

RF declares that he has no competing interests.

Revisores

Michael A. Matthay, MD

Director of Medicine Critical Care Fellowship

Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care

University of California San Francisco

CA

Declarações

MAM declares that he has no competing interests.

Timothy Evans, MBBS

Professor of Intensive Care Medicine

Royal Brompton Hospital

London

UK

Declarações

TE declares that he has no competing interests.

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Disclosures

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Principais artigos

Matthay MA, Arabi Y, Arroliga AC, et al. A new global definition of acute respiratory distress syndrome. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2024 Jan 1;209(1):37-47.Texto completo  Resumo

Bos LDJ, Ware LB. Acute respiratory distress syndrome: causes, pathophysiology, and phenotypes. Lancet. 2022 Oct 1;400(10358):1145-56.Texto completo  Resumo

Janz DR, Ware LB. Approach to the patient with the acute respiratory distress syndrome. Clin Chest Med. 2014 Dec;35(4):685-96.Texto completo  Resumo

Qadir N, Sahetya S, Munshi L, et al. An update on management of adult patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: an official American Thoracic Society clinical practice guideline. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2024 Jan 1;209(1):24-36.Texto completo  Resumo

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