Pediatrics, Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Differential Diagnoses & Workup

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Further Reading

Keywords

acute respiratory distress syndrome, ARDS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS, acute lung injury, ALI, multiple organ failure syndrome, MOFS, respiratory distress syndrome in children

Contributor Information and Disclosures

Author

Andrew K Feng, MD, Attending Physician, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children, Honolulu
Andrew K Feng, MD is a member of the following medical societies: Society of Critical Care Medicine
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

Coauthor(s)

Dale Steele, MD, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brown University School of Medicine and Hasbro Children's Hospital
Dale Steele, MD is a member of the following medical societies: Ambulatory Pediatric Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

Medical Editor

Garry Wilkes, MBBS, FACEM, Director of Emergency Medicine, Bunbury Hospital, Western Australia; Medical Director, St John Ambulance, WA Ambulance Service; Adjunct Associate Professor, Edith Cowan University; Clinical Associate Professor, Rural Clinical School, University of Western Australia, Australia.
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Mary L Windle, PharmD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy, Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine
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Managing Editor

Grace M Young, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Maryland Medical Center
Grace M Young, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Pediatrics and American College of Emergency Physicians
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CME Editor

John D Halamka, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Chief Information Officer, CareGroup Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School; Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
John D Halamka, MD, MS is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Emergency Physicians, American Medical Informatics Association, Phi Beta Kappa, and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Chief Editor

Richard G Bachur, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Associate Chief and Fellowship Director, Attending Physician, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital of Boston
Richard G Bachur, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Pediatrics, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, and Society for Pediatric Research
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