Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) remains an important cause of
morbidity and mortality worldwide, and the incidence is predicted to increase
with the aging population Several clinical disorders can initiate ARDS,
including pneumonia, sepsis, gastric aspiration and trauma but despite intense
research over the past 40 years, we still have an incomplete understanding of
the pathophysiology of the disease and treatment remains largely supportive.
This book provides an overview of acute lung injury and repair, describes
current animal models to study lung injury and reviews current methodologies to
study and measure lung injury and repair. Special emphasis is given to state of
the art techniques and methods and