Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Recent findings from Army highlight research in acute respiratory distress syndrome

Published in Health Risk Factor Week, March 9th, 2010

"H1N1 influenza is an emerging threat that is life threatening to pregnant women in the third trimester. Six third-trimester maternal deaths with severe H1N1 pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) have been reported in the literature," researchers in the United States report.

"A young woman at 33 weeks of gestation was admitted for bilateral pneumonia with increasing hypoxia. Shortly after admission, she decompensated, requiring transfer to the intensive care unit. After testing confirmed H1N1, her respiratory status declined rapidly, necessitating intubation, mechanical ventilation, and emergent bedside preterm cesarean delivery. After delivery, she...

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Source: Health Risk Factor Week (2010-03-09)

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