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cord-002016-vzn338ub	Thompson, B. Taylor	Steroids are part of rescue therapy in ARDS patients with refractory hypoxemia: no	2016-02-16		.txt	text/plain	1257	64	34	Rescue therapies for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) usually target patients with severe hypoxia and/ or hypercarbia refractory to conventional therapies and are considered when rapid deterioration in the patient's condition over a period of hours suggests an increased risk of death. These encouraging data suggest corticosteroids at lower doses early in the course of pneumonia or ARDS improve lung function but that the onset of action is too slow and inconsistent and the magnitude of the effect too small to be recommended as a reliable life-saving rescue therapy. Table 1 Steroid-responsive conditions which may present with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome Some diseases, such as granulomatosis with polyangiitis leading to diffuse alveolar hemorrhage, require additional immunosupressive treatment with cyclophosphamide or rituximab [7] . Corticosteroids in the prevention and treatment of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in adults: meta-analysis	./cache/cord-002016-vzn338ub.txt	./txt/cord-002016-vzn338ub.txt