ARDS: Together, We Can Breathe Easy Again
SEPTEMBER 2, 2009Jason Christie, MD, MSCE, Chief of the Medical Critical Care Section, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division, and Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, is among the many HUP MICU doctors and nurses featured in a film by the ARDS Foundation, which explains Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). "It's a reaction of the lung to a variety of different insults, either after trauma like a car accident, a severe blood stream infection, or pneumonia," Christie says. "In many ways, the lung goes into shock and then people require life support, mechanical ventilators, and generally end up in an ICU for a long period of time."
