ARDS – resusme

Avoiding intubation in ARDS with awake ECMO

Cliff / October 10, 2013

A letter in Intensive Care Medicine by Hoeper and colleagues from Hannover describes a small case series of six ARDS […]

Cliff / January 24, 2013

Here’s a heads up on a major evidence-based medicine event in critical care: the results of two long awaited randomised […]

Cliff / March 10, 2012

A single case report might not be practice changing, but it’s helpful to know about this option: A patient with […]

Cliff / January 21, 2012

A previous study (BALTI-1) suggested β-2 agonists may help in ARDS by reducing extravascular lung water. A randomised trial in […]

Cliff / October 12, 2011

A trial by the ARDS Clinical Trials Network of pharmaconutrition for acute lung injury1 was stopped early for futility – […]

Cliff / February 4, 2011

Prone ventilation can improve refractory hypoxaemia in ARDS but its effects on mortality have not been impressive in some studies […]

Cliff / October 19, 2010

The ACURASYS study of atracurium vs placebo in ARDS: three ml rapid intravenous infusion of 15 mg of cis-atracurium besylate […]

Cliff / July 29, 2010

A CME article in Critical Care Medicine summarises the literature on ARDS (including its limitations) and provides evidence based recommendations […]

Cliff / March 6, 2010

A multicentre randomised controlled trial of 342 adult patients with moderate to severe ARDS assessed the effect of prone ventilation […]

Cliff / March 6, 2010

The current mortality of 35% associated with acute lung injury (ALI) is roughly three times higher than that associated with […]