Abstract
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.
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