Cameron B. Guest

TL;DR: Exercise limitation, physical and psychological sequelae, decreased physical quality of life, and increased costs and use of health care services are important legacies of severe lung injury.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated 109 survivors of the acute respiratory distress syndrome 3, 6, and 12 months after discharge from the intensive care unit, and found that muscle weakness and fatigue were the reasons for their functional limitation.

TL;DR: Survivors of ARDS continued to have functional impairment and compromised health-related quality of life 2 yr after discharge from the ICU.

TL;DR: Specific infection control recommendations concerning the care of critically ill patients may help limit further nosocomial transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome.

TL;DR: It is concluded that fat globules can traverse the pulmonary circulation within 3 h of orthopedic surgery and the difference between solid microspheres and fat in transpulmonary passage suggests that the composition, perhaps the deformability, of embolic material influences the lung's filtering capacity.