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. 2016 Nov;71(11):1050-1051.
doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-208402. Epub 2016 Aug 22.

Incidence and recognition of acute respiratory distress syndrome in a UK intensive care unit

Charlotte Summers  1 , Nanak R Singh  2 , Linda Worpole  2 , Rosalind Simmonds  2 , Judith Babar  3 , Alison M Condliffe  2 , Kevin E Gunning  4 , Andrew J Johnston  4 , Edwin R Chilvers  2
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Incidence and recognition of acute respiratory distress syndrome in a UK intensive care unit

Charlotte Summers et al. Thorax. 2016 Nov.

Abstract

The reported incidence of ARDS is highly variable (2.5%-19% of intensive care unit (ICU) patients) and varies depending on study patient population used. We undertook a 6-month, prospective study to determine the incidence and outcome of ARDS in a UK adult University Hospital ICU. 344 patients were admitted during the study period, of these 43 (12.5%) were determined to have ARDS. Patients with ARDS had increased mortality at 28 days and 2 years post-diagnosis, and there was under-recognition of ARDS in both medical records and death certificattion. Our findings have implications for critical care resource planning.

Keywords: ARDS.

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Conflict of interest statement

CS, AMC and ERC have received project grant funding from GSK to undertake preclinical studies of the effect of novel therapeutic agents relevant to ARDS. The authors have no other relevant interest to declare.

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Kaplan–Meier survival curves for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) or no lung injury (NLI) groups.
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