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Researchers battle a deadly lung problem with meds, computer models

It doesn't take a whole lot to stop the tiny air sacs in your lungs from doing their jobs -- trauma, a nasty case of pneumonia or sepsis could lead to what's called Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, a situation in which your blood doesn't get all the oxygen it should.

ARDS can be tricky to treat even on a good day, but that's where the big brains at the University of Michigan come in. Researchers there have cooked up a way to model how liquid medication surges and diffuses throughout the lungs, and breathed new life into a treatment that others had all but given up on in the process.

You see, babies are occasionally born with a similar problem: their lungs can't…

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 Researchers battle a deadly lung problem with meds, computer models

It doesn't take a whole lot to stop the tiny air sacs in your lungs from doing their jobs -- trauma, a nasty case of pneumonia or sepsis could lead to what's called Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, a situation in which your blood doesn't get all the oxygen it should. ARDS can be tricky to treat even on a good day...

ARDS Support Center

The primary purpose of the ARDS Support Center is to provide information, education, care and support for patients, survivors, family members and loved ones who have been confronted with the many problems resulting from the onset, treatment and consequences of the devastating condition known as Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. The ARDS Support Center will sponsor and participate in activities aimed at funding ARDS research, the furtherance of the primary goal of the ARDS Support Center and creating a broad public awareness of this deadly syndrome.

ARDSNet

The NIH-NHLBI ARDS Network was a research network formed to study treatment of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

Jeremy Jaramillo's Blog

The following is a compilation of various related entries about ARDS taken from a variety of sites including but not limited to the ARDSNet, Medscape, Pubmed, PubmedHealth UpToDate.com, Wikipedia website.

Respiratory Therapy Cave

It should be mentioned here that no medicine has proven to reduce length of stay on a ventilator for ARDS patients, so the best strategy is to focus on low pressures and high peep strategy...

Thoracic.org

It can be difficult to diagnose ARDS in people who have underlying medical problems that cause similar symptoms. Pneumonia can share many of the same symptoms as ARDS and may progress to ARDS.

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