Acute Lung Failure – Our Evolving Understanding of ARDS

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Since Laennec described the gross pathology of idiopathic anasarca of the lungs in 1821, mortality due to the acute respiratory distress syndrome has been vastly reduced. Yet the poor subsequent condition of ARDS survivors indicates that much more needs to be done.

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