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Personal Injury and Wrongful Death

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) and
Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS)

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accountable for selling contaminated food.

E. coli-associated hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) can lead to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), severe lung injury requiring mechanical ventilation. When this happens, the risk of dying is extremely high, particularly because with HUS there is also kidney failure and damage to other organs. Read about HUS risks.

If the HUS-ARDS victim lives, hospitalization and rehabilitation can be months long. In addition, there is almost always permanent damage physically, mentally and emotionally.

If your loved one developed HUS-ARDS from an E. coli infection, our attorneys can answer your questions about payment of medical bills, compensation for pain and suffering, lost wages and other damages. Our attorneys fly to hospitals throughout the United States meeting with E. coli HUS patients and their families.

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Our food safety attorneys have two primary goals:

  • To make sure that E. coli HUS victims are fully compensated by companies responsible for their illnesses.  HUS victim compensation should always include amounts for future medical expenses, pain and suffering, lost wages and other damages. For those who suffer HUS-ARDS, these amounts can be in the millions.
  • To hold companies that sell contaminated food accountable. No one should have to worry that a bite of a hamburger or salad could kill them. With the right sanitation and food safety measures in place, companies can prevent the sale of food contaminated with dangerous E. coli.

Complications of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Complications of acute respiratory distress syndrome include those associated with mechanical ventilation:

  • tracheal stenosis, vocal cord dysfunction
  • ventilator-associated pneumonia
  • stress-related gastrointestinal hemorrhage
  • cardiac arrhythmias
  • myocardial dysfunction
  • barotrauma (pneumothorax, pneumomediastinum, pneumoperitoneum, air embolism)
  • hypotension
  • mechanical damage from central line placement.1,2

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Resources: 1. Russell, James and Walley, Keith, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Cambridge University Press (1999), p. 257.
2. Mortelliti, M.D., Michael and Manning, M.D., Harold, Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, American Family Physician (May 2002) 65(9):1823-1831.

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