“…ARDS was also associated with a significant increase in mortality, and it prolonged the duration of mechanical ventilation and the length of ICU stay. Similarly, in previous reports, ARDS has been identified as a major contributor to the morbidity and mortality of patients with brain injuries [2,3,5,15,17,18,30]. ARDS also worsens longterm neurologic outcome [1,2,3,32], and is associated with longer ICU and hospital length of stay [5,29].…”