Ventilator-associated lung injury

Ventilator-associated lung injury
Ventilator-associated lung injury
Specialty	Pulmonology

Ventilator-associated lung injury (VALI) is an acute lung injury that develops during mechanical ventilation and is termed ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) if it can be proven that the mechanical ventilation caused the acute lung injury. In contrast, ventilator-associated lung injury (VALI) exists if the cause cannot be proven. VALI is the appropriate term in most situations because it is virtually impossible to prove what actually caused the lung injury in the hospital.^[1]

^ International (1999). "Ventilator-associated Lung Injury in ARDS. This official conference report was cosponsored by the American Thoracic Society, The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and The Societé de Réanimation de Langue Française, and was approved by the ATS Board of Directors, July 1999". Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 160 (6): 2118–24. doi:10.1164/ajrccm.160.6.ats16060. PMID 10588637.

[international-1] International (1999). "Ventilator-associated Lung Injury in ARDS. This official conference report was cosponsored by the American Thoracic Society, The European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, and The Societé de Réanimation de Langue Française, and was approved by the ATS Board of Directors, July 1999". Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 160 (6): 2118–24. doi:10.1164/ajrccm.160.6.ats16060. PMID 10588637.

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