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The Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) remains a challenging clinical entity. Despite vigorous research efforts and ever evolving treatment
modalities, mortality has remained virtually unchanged over the last
decade. Clinical studies have not been able to show beneficial outcome
effects for most therapeutic interventions (apart from low tidal volume
ventilation), although the benefits of short term effects are
sufficiently proven.
The outcome effects may be biased by several facts. The objectives of
this consortium are to understand the different factors governing
different responses, as well as the treatment and outcome of ARDS. With
this information we hope to improve the existing treatment algorithms.
The objectives of the consortium are as follows:
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