Clinical justification of acute respiratory distress syndrome and other pulmonary complications in COVID-19

Acute respiratory distress syndrome —ARDS) is an acute diffuse inflammatory lesion of the lung parenchyma that develops as a non-specific reaction to various damaging factors and leads to the formation of acute respiratory failure (ODN) (as a component of multiple organ failure) due to a violation of the structure of lung tissue and a decrease in the mass of aerated lung tissue This article concludes that severe acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by the novel coronavirus-2 (COVID-19) is considered an emergency pandemic of respiratory diseases, the clinical picture of this infection often meets the criteria of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) with progressive stress leading to death.