AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1988 Third Quarter

Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a descriptive term that applies to an acute clinical-pathological state characterized by diffuse infiltrative lung lesions, severe dyspnea, and hypoxemia (deficient oxygenation of blood) occurring in certain clinical situations. Another description of ARDS is respiratory failure due to shock and trauma occurring in the presence of previously normal lungs. Other terminology used to denote ARDS include the following: Shock lung Traumatic wet lung White lung syndrome Capillary leak syndrome Postperfusion lung DeNang lung syndrome Adult hyaline membrane disease Etiology of ARDS (adult respiratory distress syndrome) ARDS following shock, surgery or trauma ARDS and...

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