La Revue du praticien
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Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a permeability pulmonary edema due to lung injury from various causes. In 2012, a new definition, taking into account the degree of hypoxemia and the level of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP), was published. ⋯ The treatment of ARDS consists on causative treatment and a strategy of protective ventilation associated with a PEEP level between 10 and 15 cm H20 and the use of prone position or inhaled nitric oxide in the severest cases. The role of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation as adjuvant therapy in ARDS remains unclear.