Acute respiratory distress syndrome after trauma: Development and validation of a predictive model.

The article discusses a study which investigated the early clinical predictors of acute respiratory distress syndrome following major traumatic injury. The study, which included 224 patients, found that age, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II Score, injury severity score and the blunt traumatic injury predict acute respiratory distress syndrome. It concluded that patients are at risk for acute respiratory distress syndrome following severe traumatic injury.