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Minute ventilation to carbon dioxide production ratio is a simple and non-invasive index of ventilatory inefficiency in mechanically ventilated patients: proof of concept

Authors: René López, Iván Caviedes, Jerónimo Graf

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 10/2017

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Title: Minute ventilation to carbon dioxide production ratio is a simple and non-invasive index of ventilatory inefficiency in mechanically ventilated patients: proof of concept
Authors: René López
Iván Caviedes
Jerónimo Graf
Publication date: 01-10-2017
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 10/2017
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-017-4844-7

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