ARDS & Respiratory Failure

A perennially high-yield Critical Care topic for NEET PG, sitting at the intersection of physiology, anaesthesia, and medicine. Master the Berlin definition cut-offs, the Type I vs Type II distinction, and lung-protective ventilation — these three clusters generate the bulk of questions. --- Respiratory failure is the inability of the respiratory system to maintain adequate gas exchange — i.e. failure to oxygenat…