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SUBMITTER: Kim WY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4823184 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Won-Young WY Hong Sang-Bum SB
Tuberculosis and respiratory diseases 20160331 2
Severe sepsis or septic shock is characterized by an excessive inflammatory response to infectious pathogens. Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a devastating complication of severe sepsis, from which patients have high mortality. Advances in treatment modalities including lung protective ventilation, prone positioning, use of neuromuscular blockade, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, have improved the outcome over recent decades, nevertheless, the mortality rate still remains h ...[more]