title: Supportive therapy with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for acute respiratory distress syndrome.
abstract: Acute respiratory distress syndrome is a severe form of respiratory failure characterized by acute onset of significant hypoxaemia (PaO2:FiO2<200mmHg) with diffuse bilateral pulmonary air-space shadowing on chest X-ray, without clinical signs of heart failure (Bernard et al, 1994). It has a heterogeneous aetiology with wide-ranging pulmonary and extra-pulmonary causes.
authors.affiliation: Intensive Care Medicine, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth. phil.gillen@nhs.net
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gillen
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Duffy
mesh_terms: D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D012128:Respiratory Distress Syndrome / Q000628:therapy*