The only available text to focus primarily on Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS).

Thoroughly revised content and ten new chapters provide pulmonologists with the latest developments and applications of pharmacological and mechanical therapies needed to treat the debilitating and difficult condition of ARDS.

Highlights include:

• the definition, epidemiology, pathology, and pathogenesis of ARDS
• complications such as transfusion-related injury, and endothelium and vascular dysfunction
• the long-term...