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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Comprehensive Clinical Approach
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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Comprehensive Clinical Approach Russell JA, Walley KR. (Pp 356, paperback; £29.95). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0 521 65410 6.
During little over three decades since its characterisation, the acute respiratory distress syndrome, alone or as a part of the multiorgan dysfunction syndrome, has grown to constitute one of the major challenges facing intensive care specialists across the globe. Within the past decade major advances in our understanding of the aetiology and pathophysiology of the condition and the introduction of new treatment modalities and management strategies have conspicuously failed to improve patient …