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Causes of a high physiological dead space in critically ill patients

Since around 1950, physiological dead space – the difference between arterial and mixed expired pCO(2 )(partial pressure of carbon dioxide) divided by the arterial pCO(2 )– has been a useful clinical parameter of pulmonary gas exchange. In the previous issue of Critical Care, Niklason and colleagues...

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Autor principal: Wagner, Peter D
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2481441/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18492224
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc6888