Acute respiratory distress syndrome is severe and often fatal acute respiratory failure; characterized by diffuse inflammatory lung injury rapidly progressing to increased pulmonary vascular permeability, increased lung weight, and hypoxemia
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COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) is a respiratory tract infection with a newly recognized coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, thought to have originated as a zoonotic virus that has mutated or otherwise adapted in ways that allow human pathogenicity
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There are different types of pneumonia. A different type is called community-acquired pneumonia. It develops in people who are not, and have not recently been, in the hospital or another type of health care facility.
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Sepsis is a life-threatening systemic syndrome caused by a microbial infection and dysregulated physiologic response.
MIS-C is a recently described clinical syndrome in children and adolescents
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Read nowCHEST has pulled together these resources and materials for the medical teams, caretakers, the public, and media interested or impacted by 2019-nCoV. We will continue to update resources as new information is available.
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Review nowThe Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) is a repository of ventilators that would be used to supplement the supply currently in use by the nation's acute care facilities.
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