Acute respiratory distress syndrome ("ARDS"): no more than a severe acute lung injury?

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Published in BMJ on November 20, 1993

Authors

R Beale1, E R Grover, M Smithies, D Bihari

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Surgery, Guy's Hospital, London.

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