Increased Mortality of Older Patients With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Increased Mortality of Older Patients With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

To examine the relationship between age and mortality in ARDS patients and evaluate the importance of factors that increase the mortality of older ARDS patients. Prospective inception cohort study. Community-based referral hospital. Two hundred fifty-six ARDS patients identified from May 1987 to Dec...

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Veröffentlicht in:Chest 1997-05, Vol.111 (5), p.1334-1339
Hauptverfasser: Suchyta, Mary R., Clemmer, Terry P., Elliott, C. Gregory, Orme, James F., Morris, Alan H., Jacobson, Jay, Menlove, Ron
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Adult
Age
Age Factors
Aged
APACHE
Bias
Biological and medical sciences
Cause of Death
Chronic illnesses
Cohort Studies
Compliance
Failure
Female
Humans
Incidence
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Mortality
Oxygen - administration & dosage
Oxygen - blood
Patients
Physiology
Pneumology
Positive-Pressure Respiration
Prospective Studies
Pulmonary arteries
Pulmonary Wedge Pressure
Radiography, Thoracic
Respiration, Artificial
Respiratory distress syndrome
Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult - mortality
Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult - physiopathology
Respiratory Insufficiency - epidemiology
Respiratory Mechanics - physiology
Respiratory system : syndromes and miscellaneous diseases
Risk Factors
Sepsis
Sepsis - epidemiology
Sex Factors
Smoking - epidemiology
Survival Rate
Thorax - physiopathology
Utah - epidemiology
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Zusammenfassung:To examine the relationship between age and mortality in ARDS patients and evaluate the importance of factors that increase the mortality of older ARDS patients. Prospective inception cohort study. Community-based referral hospital. Two hundred fifty-six ARDS patients identified from May 1987 to December 1990. ARDS was defined by the following: (1) PaO2/PAO2≤0.2; (2) pulmonary capillary wedge pressure ≤15 mm Hg; (3) total static thoracic compliance
ISSN:0012-3692
1931-3543
DOI:10.1378/chest.111.5.1334