About Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
This is the condition develop from various systemic and pulmonary disease.
The term 'Acute Lung Injury' not longer use.
It is serious disease characterized by damage to alveolar epithelium and pulmonary capillary endothelium.
Cause
1.systemic cause
2.pulmonary cause
1. System cause
Septicemia
Pyaemia
Shock
Injury
Venous embolism
Recurrent transfusion
Bypass surgery
Drugs-Narcotics, aspirin
Eclampsia
2. Pulmonary cause
Pulmonary infection- viral,bacterial, fungal
Toxic gas and smoke inhalation
O2 poisoning
Thromboembolism
Lung injury
Aspiration of gastric content
Drowning, hanging
Miliary tuberculosis
Inhalation-Ammonia, chlorine smoke, ozone.
Aspiration-vomitus, water (near drowning)
Hanging
Clinical features
- Acute onset
- Usually 12-48 hours
- Laboured breathing
- Cough
- Sputum
- Slight temperature
- Feature of multiple organ failure present
- Age-adult
- Sex-both
- Pulse-Tachycardia
- Respiratory rate- Hurried
- Chest- sucking of intercostal space
Investigation
X-ray chest- diffuse and patchy bilateral infiltrates
LFT- Pao2<50mmofHg
Pressure study- Normal pulmonary capillary wedge pressure
Treatment
- O2 Therapy
- Ventilator
- Blood transfusion
- Dopamine
- Nitric oxide inhalation
The selection of homoeopathic remedies based on symptom similarities and doses according to the Susceptibility of patient.
Don't take homoeopathic medicine without any prescription / without any advise of physician.
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