Acute respiratory distress syndrome

ADT Force, VM Ranieri, GD Rubenfeld, B Thompson… - Jama, 2012 - jamanetwork.com
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 …