Sentences with phrase «ards patients»

With survival rates improving for ARDS patients, understanding and improving their quality of life outcomes is a clinical and research priority, according to the study's principal investigator Samuel M. Brown, MD, MS, FASE, director of the Center for Humanizing Critical Care at Intermountain Medical Center.

Not exact matches

Critical care researchers from Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City studied 616 patients who were treated for ARDS to determine what factors played the most significant role in their quality of life six months following discharge from the hospital.

A new study of patients who survive the once - nearly fatal Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) finds their subsequent quality of life has more to do with lifestyle factors than how sick they were in the hospital.

«Evidence from our study, and other evidence, suggests that there is an urgent need to better support these patients who survive ARDS because they're confronting some difficulties and unique challenges,» said Dr. Brown.

ARDS is a progressive condition that can occur in patients who are critically ill or who have significant trauma injuries.

«We see patients who we're treating for ARDS who are very sick and, who at the time, may not look like their quality of life will be great, but our study shows that their level of acuity is not a marker of whether they will experience a high quality of life once they leave the hospital,» said Dr. Brown.

However, this natural ability to tighten the barrier in response to low oxygen may not occur fast enough in the patients who develop ARDS.

These drugs could be given to high - risk patients and hopefully prevent the formation of ARDS by activating the internal protective barrier tightening mechanism,» Rehman said.

There is some evidence that Borage, when taken in combination with eicosapentaenoic acid might reduce the number of days in intensive care (ICU) and length of time spent on a breathing machine for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a potentially deadly infection in which fluid fills the lungs and makes it difficult to breathe, appears more common among heart surgery patients during flu season, the researchers found.

• Provided primary care for 16 bed intensive care unit • Assisted in treatment for disease management in MICU for patients with COPD, ARDS and neuromuscular disease • Treated wounds and maintained advanced life support systems • Recorded vital statistics • Initiated intravenous fluids and medications prescribed by physicians

Direct admit for patients with ARDS, influenza, pneumonia and other lung rescue complex patient population with life threatening critical illness