Etiology
Systemic insults
- Trauma, sepsis, shock, burns
- Pancreatitis
- Multiple transfusions
- DIC, TTP
- Drugs: opioids, aspirin, phenothiazines, tricyclic antidepressants, amiodarone, chemotherapeutics, nitrofurantoin, protamine
- Cardiopulmonary bypass
- Head injury
- Paraquat
Pulmonary insults- Aspiration of gastric contents
- Embolism of thrombus, fat, air, or amniotic fluid
- Miliary tuberculosis
- Diffuse pneumonia
- Acute eosinophilic pneumonia
- Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP)
- Upper airway obstruction
- Freebase cocaine smoking
- Near-drowning
- Toxic gas inhalation: nitrogen dioxide, chlorine, sulfur dioxide, ammonia, smoke inhalation
- Oxygen toxicity
- Lung contusion
- Radiation
- High altitude exposure
- Lung re-expansion or reperfusion
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has been found in Diagnosaurus 2.0
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