Quality of Life

Survivors of Acute Lung Injury Still Battle After-Effects

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, November 17th, 1997

As a result of pneumonia, sepsis, or trauma, acute lung injury patients have severe and sudden respiratory failure associated with varying amounts of fluid in their lungs. They often spend days on mechanical ventilation in an intensive care unit.

Although the condition is relatively uncommon with an incidence of only eight cases per 100,000 adults, the problem does provide a special model for the critical care community because it strikes relatively young persons and patient outcome is uncertain, prolonged, and resource intensive.

Since the fatality rate has declined, Craig R. Weinert, M.D., Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care...

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