PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jaimin Mansuriya
AU  - Rajesh Chawla
AU  - Ravi Shekhar Jha
AU  - Uday Aditya Gupta
AU  - Tarun Rao
TI  - Clinical and microbiological characteristics and outcome of ARDS in India
AID  - 10.1183/13993003.congress-2016.PA2142
DP  - 2016 Sep 01
TA  - European Respiratory Journal
PG  - PA2142
VI  - 48
IP  - suppl 60
4099  - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/48/suppl_60/PA2142.short
4100  - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/48/suppl_60/PA2142.full
SO  - Eur Respir J2016 Sep 01; 48
AB  - Introduction: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is a heterogeneous disease.Aims & Objective: To study clinical and microbiological characteristics & outcome of ARDS.Method: Prospective study in medical ICUs of one tertiary care center in Northern India, over 20 months. All adults of age ≥ 18 years, with ARDS at presentation by Berlin definition were included.Result: Of 102 patients, 49(48 %), 33(32.4%), 20(19.6%) presented with mild, moderate and severe ARDS, respectively. Pneumonia was found in 70 (68.6%) patients with H1N1 influenza A in 24 (34%). Extra-pulmonary sepsis was found 31(30.4%) patients with most common organism was Dengue 10 (32%) followed by Malaria 6 (19%). See tables 1-2.Conclusion: Pulmonary ARDS was common. Mostly, frequency of micro-organisms does not vary by severity of ARDS. Patients with Mild ARDS had better outcome.View this table:[Table 1] Cause and outcome of ARDS; n (%); N=102View this table:[Table 2] Initial microbiology in patients with pneumonia (n=70); n (% out of 70)