In Pursuit of Microbiome-based Therapies for Acute Respiratory Failure.
- Resource Type
- editorial
- Authors
- Ali, Farhana; Sweeney, Daniel A.
- Source
- American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine; 12/15/2020, Vol. 202 Issue 12, p1616-1618, 3p
- Subject
- RESPIRATORY insufficiency
RESPIRATORY distress syndrome
MORTALITY
HUMAN microbiota
PATIENTS
ARTIFICIAL respiration
DEGENERATION (Pathology)
RESPIRATORY organs
- Language
- ISSN
- 1073449X
An editorial is presented on the patients with acute respiratory failure including patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and sepsis. Topics include respiratory microbiota patterns being predictive of increased mortality among critically ill patients; developing a microbiome-guided or microbiome-based treatment for critically ill patients with acute respiratory failure; and associated with dysbiosis and higher mortality in a heterogeneous critically ill population.