ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED AND 100% ACCURATE ANSWERS BRAND NEW EXAM ALREADY GRADED A+

ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME QUESTIONS
WITH DETAILED VERIFIED AND 100% ACCURATE
ANSWERS BRAND NEW EXAM ALREADY GRADED A+
What does ARS stand for? Correct Answers Acute Respiratory Distress
Syndrome


What is ARDS? Correct Answers Non-cardiac pulmonary edema; A
severe form of respiratory failure in which a person is in Respiratory
Acidosis.


ARDS is a progressive, refractory hypoxemia. What does that mean?
Correct Answers We're placing oxygen on these patients and they are
not responding.


What is the mortality rate of ARDS? Correct Answers 50%<


What are the 2 reasons why a patient might go into ARDS? Correct
Answers Direct causes- Causes that DIRECTLY affect the patient's
lungs


Indirect causes- Something happens to the patient and THEN they go
into ARDS


What are some DIRECT causes of ARDS? Correct Answers Smoke or
toxic inhalation
near-drowning episode

, pneumonia
aspiration
trauma


What are some INDIRECT causes of ARDS? Correct Answers Sepsis
Shock
Pancreatitis
major surgery
Burns=>infection


How long does it take ARDS to manifest? Correct Answers ARDS is a
primary process. It can manifest in no time at all. It does not progress in
any specific order. It can just happen and patient will have automatic
distress


If ARDS is Indirect, you often see symptoms Correct Answers Within
the 1st 24 hours of the initial injury


What are the stages of ARDS? Correct Answers Exudative Phase
Proliferative Phase
Fibrotic Phase


What happens in the exudative phase? Correct Answers There is
alteration in the membrane permeability in the pulmonary capillaries
and alveoli.