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Can ARDS and MOF Be Prevented?

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Update 1987

Part of the book series: Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine ((UICM,volume 3))

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Presently adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and the subsequent syndrome with Multiple Organ Failure (MOF) and sepsis are the main causes of death in an up-to-date surgical and intensive care department. Despite intensive treatment, and support of the failing organ functions, mortality of the MOF syndrome still is around 60%. MOF is generally believed to be the result of bacterial sepsis, though it has been recently shown that — at least in trauma patients — no dependable correlation is present between positive bacterial blood cultures and “sepsis” [1].

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  1. Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Route de Lennik 808, B-1070, Brussels, Belgium

    Jean Louis Vincent (Assistant-Director) (Assistant-Director)

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Goris, R.J.A. (1987). Can ARDS and MOF Be Prevented?. In: Vincent, J.L. (eds) Update 1987. Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83042-6_18

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