1. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

2. ARDS

3. ARDS

4. Background

5. 1994 American-European Consensus Definition

6. Berlin 2012 Definition

7. Epidemiology

8. Mortality

9. Morbidity

10. Pathophysiology

12. Acute Phase - Radiographs

13. ARDS Phases

14. Fibrotic (Chronic) phase

15. Determinants of fibrosis

16. ARDS Causes

17. Management

19. Comparison of Two Fluid-Management Strategies in Acute Lung Injury

22. STERIODS

23. Prone Positioning in Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

24. Standard of Practice for the Treatment of Immobility

25. Immobility Is A Disease

26. Mother Nature’s Answer to Positional Changing

28. A Proning Bed

29. Physiology of Positional Therapy

30. Physiology of Positional Therapy

31. Pleural Gradient

32. Proning – Just Good Horse Sense

33. Pleural Gradient

34. Pleural Gradient

35. Pleural Gradient

36. At Enrollment

45. Conclusion

46. Conclusion