Acute respiratory distress syndrome: the Berlin Definition.

VM Ranieri, GD Rubenfeld… - JAMA: Journal of …, 2012 - search.ebscohost.com
The article focuses on the issues regarding the reliability and validity of the acute respiratory
distress syndrome (ARDS) definition which was discussed in the 1994 American-European
Consensus Conference (AECC). Through a consensus process, a panel of experts
developed the Berlin Definition, focusing on feasibility, reliability, validity evaluation of its
performance. A draft definition proposed three mutually exclusive categories of ARDS based
on degree of hypoxemia and four ancillary variables for severe ARDS which include …

Acute respiratory distress syndrome

ADT Force, VM Ranieri, GD Rubenfeld, B Thompson… - Jama, 2012 - jamanetwork.com
The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) was defined in 1994 by the American-
European Consensus Conference (AECC); since then, issues regarding the reliability and
validity of this definition have emerged. Using a consensus process, a panel of experts
convened in 2011 (an initiative of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
endorsed by the American Thoracic Society and the Society of Critical Care Medicine)
developed the Berlin Definition, focusing on feasibility, reliability, validity, and objective …