You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Commentary
A syndrome by any other name: playing the long-term outcome CARDS
  1. Andrea R Levine,
  2. Carl Shanholtz
  1. Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Carl Shanholtz, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA; Cshanhol{at}som.umaryland.edu

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2021-218279

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    The classic presentation of the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is characterised by heterogeneity in demographics, aetiology, lung physiology and outcomes. Early in the pandemic of COVID-19, there was extensive debate in the medical literature and on social media about how COVID-19 respiratory disease differed from ‘classic’ ARDS, questioning whether it should be classified and treated as ARDS at all. As more data emerged regarding the epidemiology and physiology of COVID-related ARDS (CARDS), it has become clear that these syndromes are more alike than different, and there is no reason to stray from providing evidence-based management of ARDS.1

    Against this backdrop, Latronico et al have measured the frequency and degree of impairments commonly associated with the postintensive care syndrome (PICS) in survivors of CARDS and compared them to …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Contributors The authors contributed equally to the writing of the manuscript.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

    Linked Articles

    • Brief communication
      Physical, cognitive and mental health outcomes in 1-year survivors of COVID-19-associated ARDS
      Nicola Latronico Elena Peli Stefano Calza Federica Rodella Maria Paola Novelli Andrea Cella John Marshall Dale M Needham Frank Antony Rasulo Simone Piva LOTO Investigators Andrea Borghesi Silvia Barbieri Silvia Capuccini Sergio Cattaneo Alberto Giannini Bruno Guarneri Roberto Maroldi Consuelo Meldini Irene Palazzi Laura Pini Claudio Tantucci Gabriele Tomasoni Francesca Zubani
      Thorax 2021; 77 300-303 Published Online First: 29 Sep 2021. doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2021-218064