Ubertini CA

Language: Spanish
References: 11
Page: 571-574
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ABSTRACT

The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome is an acute pulmonary pathology, rapidly progressive, that leads to a swelling of the alveolar-capillary barrier with accumulation of exudative material within the alveoli so that the gaseous exchange capability between the oxygen inhaled and the wasted carbon dioxide become seriously compromised. Despite constant efforts to improve pharmacological treatment, modern medical science has yet to come up with treatments to give satisfactory results. To this day the treatment goal-standard is focused in maintaining an optimum water balance jointly with a mechanical ventilation characterized by low tidal volumes, high respiratory frequency, low plateau pressure and high level of positive end expiratory pressure. All these, in effort to reach an adequate gaseous exchange, without causing a pulmonary volutrauma neither a barotrauma.

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