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Etiologies acute respiratory distress syndrome
Direct Injury
- Pneumonia (~40%)
- Aspiration (~15%)
- Near drowning
- Inhalation injury
- Lung contusion
Indirect Injury
- Sepsis (~25%)
- Shock
- disseminated intravascular coagulation
- pancreatitis
- Trauma/multiple fractures
- transfusion-related acute lung injury