• Drug Chem Toxicol · Feb 1999

    Review

    Acute lung injury, acute respiratory distress syndrome and inhalation injury: an overview.

    • E C Kimmel and K R Still.
    • Naval Medical Research Institute Detachment (Toxicology), WPAFB, OH 45433-7903, USA.
    • Drug Chem Toxicol. 1999 Feb 1;22(1):91-128.

    AbstractAcute Lung Injury (ALI) and the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) are severe respiratory diseases that have a very poor prognosis and have numerous causes. Despite a great deal of research and investigation since the initial description of ARDS 30 years ago many questions about the pathogenesis, treatment and outcome of the disease remain unanswered. Although there is evidence to suggest that outcome of ALI and ARDS is improving, the reasons why are unknown and there is not yet a well developed treatment for these diseases. Inhalation injury resulting from exposure to pyrolysis and combustion atmospheres is among the causes of ALI/ARDS. Little is known of the mechanisms of fire related inhalation injury that results in the development of ALI/ARDS. There is a paucity of information about fire atmosphere exposure response relationships for smoke-induced inhalation injury. Although there is considerable information about the pulmonary toxicity of many of the more common constituents of fire atmospheres, little is known about the pulmonary toxicity of mixtures of these constituents. Fire related pulmonary health risks are of particular concern to the Navy due to the limited opportunity to escape the inhalation hazards posed by shipboard fires. Consequently the Naval Medical Research Institute Detachment (Toxicology) has undertaken a research program to develop research models of combustion atmosphere induced ALI/ARDS which can be exploited to systematically address some of the questions surrounding fire related ALI/ARDS. ALI/ARDS has been the topic of a vast amount of research, numerous symposia, working groups and their published proceedings, book chapters, and books. Less information is available regarding experimental models of smoke induced lung damage, however the literature on the subject is extensive. Consequently this article is intended to provide the reader with a primer or cursory "overview" of ALI and ARDS from a toxicological perspective and should not be considered comprehensive.

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