New insights into pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome

Abstract

Pediatric acute respiratory distress syndrome (PARDS) is one of the most severe disease in pediatric critical care medicine with high mortality.Pediatric practitioners have recognized that ARDS in children is different from ARDS in adults.In the absence of identification of these differences, however, children have been characterized as having ARDS based on the adult definitions.Therefore, the managements for PARDS were conducted without specific considerations of children, and have limitations when applied to patients.With the purpose to highlight the gaps of ARDS between children and adults, the new insights into PARDS on the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis in the recent years were summarized. Key words: Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Diagnostic criteria; Treatment; Child