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Artificial surfactant and ARDS

Children with adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) from traumatic lung injuries might stabilize more quickly with immediate artificial surfactant therapy, according to a study in the June Pediatric Emergency Care.

Physicians gave artificial surfactant colfosceril palmitate, cetyl alcohol to seven children, ages 11 months to 10 years, who experienced near-drowning, burns, lung injury or severe pneumonia. Outcomes were measured against five historical pediatric ARDS controls. Although controls and test subjects showed no statistical difference in survival outcomes, ARDS patients tended to stabilize breathing earlier if surfactant was administered within six hours of injury, researchers reported.