Medicina intensiva
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Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is defined according to the criteria of the 1994 consensus conference. These criteria aim to
. ⋯ These studies have been basically done in experimental animals, but also by the description of the pulmonary biopsy findings and post-mortem study findings. The present article aims to show discrepancy between clinical and histological diagnosis of the acute pulmonary lesion, basically having an effect on the difficulty of the ARDS diagnosis when its origin is pulmonary and the implications of this discrepancy in the clinical practice and research. -
It is considered that in Spain, every year, we have more than 24,500 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Around 85% of these are secondary to ventricular fibrillation, with possibility of reversion in more than 90% if defibrillation is performed in the first minute of arrhythmia. However, if we delay this defibrillation, survival possibilities disappear in a few minutes. ⋯ Thus, their introduction should be preceded by a cost-effectiveness study. Effectiveness of automated defibrillators at home, where up to 80% of cardiac arrest are produced, has still not been evaluated. Nevertheless, in the USA, its marketing with this indication has been authorized.