thirty multiply injured blunt-trauma patients at high risk for development of ards ( multisystem trauma including more than one organ or extremity , injury severity score of 26 or more , hypotension and need for 1500 ml or more blood within the first hour after admission , and pao2 less than or equal to 70 torr ) were studied sequentially with blood and physiologic evaluations beginning immediately after injury and every eight hours for eight days , or until death , to study the evolution of the ards process .
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blunt-trauma
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trauma