Indirect lung injury
These include:
- shock - from:
- sepsis
- multiple trauma
- acute pancreatitis
- burns
- complicated abdominal surgery
- fat embolism
- disseminated intravascular coagulation
- multiple blood transfusions
- uraemia
- eclampsia
- raised intracranial pressure
- radiation
- high altitude
- prolonged hypotension
- cardiopulmonary bypass
- drugs and toxins - salicylates, heroin, opiates, paraquat
- hypersensitivity or anaphylactic reaction
- multisystem disease - vasculitis, thrombotic thrombocytopaenic purpura, acute hepatic failure
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