Causes of Mortality in Patients with the Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Current Concepts of Respiratory Insufficiency Syndromes After Fracture

“…120 It is generally considered that the prognosis from ARDS is worse, with an expected mortality in the vicinity of 50%, although most studies have been carried out in intensive-care units on patients with severe trauma to multiple systems in whom the death rate is expected to be higher. 10 The cause of death in approximately one-third of patients is due to other injuries, especially to the head. In the remainder, death is usually either as a result of overwhelming secondary sepsis or MODS.…”

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

“…25 More recently, clinical experimental evidence suggests that multiple organ system failure occurs partly through dissemination of inflammatory cytokines from the alveolar space into the pulmonary and systemic circulations, a phenomenon reduced by lung protection strategies of mechanical ventilation. 26 In the Unites States alone, acute lung injury is associated with 74 500 deaths annually and the care of such patients consumes 3.6 million hospital days.…”

Multiple organ failure as onset of Mediterranean spotted fever: a review based on a case

“…9 Representing a systemic condition that could be associated with several diseases, it is not possible to define specific epidemiological data about it, but MODS/MOF has been reported to be a major cause of mortality in acute respiratory distress syndrome, systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), trauma, sepsis and several other critical illnesses. [9][10][11][12][13] To our knowledge there are only few cases of MSF reported to be complicated by MODS/MOF. Here we report the case of a 59-year-old male affected by MSF whose onset was characterized by MODS/MOF, using it to critically revise the international literature, focusing on the possible diagnostic and therapeutic delays due to the atypical presentations and the use of nonspecific and non-sensible laboratory tools.…”