Acute respiratory distress syndrome
ARDS Definition Task Force, VM Ranieri, GD Rubenfeld, BT Thompson, ND Ferguson, E Caldwell
Jama 307 (23), 2526-2533, 2012
The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) was defined in 1994 by the American-European Consensus Conference (AECC); since then,
issues regarding the reliability and validity of this definition have emerged. Using a consensus process, a panel of experts convened in 2011 (an initiative of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine endorsed by the American Thoracic Society and the Society of Critical Care Medicine) developed the Berlin Definition, focusing on feasibility, reliability, validity, and objective evaluation of its performance …
