Researchers at Endeavor Health and Northwestern University have created an artificial intelligence-based tool to help doctors recognize an underdiagnosed, often fatal respiratory syndrome found in critically ill hospital patients. The tool has already identified historical cases with 93% accuracy, and it will soon be piloted for patients in treatment at Endeavor.

Acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS, happens when the lungs become severely inflamed — much more so than from a typical lung infection. This inflammation leads to extensive damage, causing fluid to leak from other parts of the lung into the air sacs. Because of this fluid buildup, patients can’t get oxygen into their bloodstream.

It’s often referred to as a sort of “drowning on dry land,” where the body’s own immune sys

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