Journal article
The Montreux definition of neonatal ARDS: biological and clinical background behind the description of a new entity
D De Luca, AH van Kaam, DG Tingay, SE Courtney, O Danhaive, VP Carnielli, LJ Zimmermann, MCJ Kneyber, P Tissieres, J Brierley, G Conti, JJ Pillow, PC Rimensberger
Lancet Respiratory Medicine | Published : 2017
Abstract
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is undefined in neonates, despite the long-standing existing formal recognition of ARDS syndrome in later life. We describe the Neonatal ARDS Project: an international, collaborative, multicentre, and multidisciplinary project which aimed to produce an ARDS consensus definition for neonates that is applicable from the perinatal period. The definition was created through discussions between five expert members of the European Society for Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care; four experts of the European Society for Paediatric Research; two independent experts from the USA and two from Australia. This Position Paper provides the first consensus defi..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council Clinical Career Development Fellowship
Funding Acknowledgements
DGT reports receiving grants from a National Health and Medical Research Council Clinical Career Development Fellowship (Grant ID 1053889) and the Victorian Government Operational Infrastructure Support Program (Melbourne, Australia). There was no funding source for this Position Paper. We thank Nash Kahn for the management of the REDCap database at the University of Western Australia and the ESPNIC administrative secretariat for organising teleconferences and for the technical support. We also thank Luigi Bertogalli (Pixelite, Parma, Italy) for the graphic work and Maria Cristina De Rosa (Italian National Research Council, Roma, Italy), for providing the molecular model of secretory phospholipase A2. DDL finally wishes to warmly thank Valentina Di Marco, because without her all this would have been impossible.