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

Intensive Care Med. 2017 Oct;43(10):1542-1543. doi: 10.1007/s00134-017-4844-7. Epub 2017 May 31.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Carbon Dioxide / metabolism*
  • Critical Illness / therapy*
  • Humans
  • Intensive Care Units
  • Prospective Studies
  • Pulmonary Gas Exchange*
  • Respiration, Artificial / methods*
  • Respiratory Dead Space / physiology
  • Tidal Volume / physiology*

Substances

  • Carbon Dioxide