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In an Intensive Care Unit, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a serious condition. Non-cardiogenic pulmonary oedema was the prior name for it. It is caused by a variety of illnesses that cause lung injury, but sepsis is the most common cause. It causes interstitial and alveolar oedema, diffuse alveolar damage, refractory hypoxemia, and ventilation perfusion mismatch by damaging the alveolar capillary membrane. Dyspnoea with diffuse in ltration on chest X-ray is a typical clinical symptom. Low tidal volume, high positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP), and low plateau pressure are all used to treat ARDS. Prone placement improves patient perfusion and thereby increases the PaO/FiO ratio. To treat ARDS, doctors are increasingly turning to high frequency oscillation ventilation (HFOV).