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Published in: Critical Care 1/2016

Open Access 01-12-2016 | Editorial

Dead space in acute respiratory distress syndrome: more than a feeling!

Authors: Lluis Blanch, Josefina López-Aguilar, Umberto Lucangelo

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 1/2016

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Why clinicians are slow to implement advances in diagnosis and treatment from well-designed clinical trials is a continuously debated question in critical care. For instance, prone positioning significantly improves mortality in patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), but the usefulness of recruitment measures in this population is still under debate. Nevertheless, a recent observational study in intensive care units in 50 countries found that prone positioning was used in only 16.3 % of patients with severe ARDS, whereas recruitment maneuvers were used in 32.7 % [1]. Similarly, despite the established usefulness of measuring physiologic variables such as dead space in mechanically ventilated ARDS patients, this practice is not widely employed. …
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Metadata
Title
Dead space in acute respiratory distress syndrome: more than a feeling!
Authors
Lluis Blanch
Josefina López-Aguilar
Umberto Lucangelo
Publication date
01-12-2016
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue 1/2016
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-016-1381-7

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