Dead stop-Titration

Dead space fraction: one of many choices to assess PEEP titration.

We thank Dr Alkhuja and Ms Duffy for reviewing our paper, their thoughtful insight about the physiology of oxygen delivery, and their call for education of health care staff about the same. We agree with their ideas about optimization of cardiac output and anemia for increasing oxygen delivery when required to do so. In our study we evaluated 289 patients, among whom 210 met our inclusion crite...

Title: Use of Dead Space Fraction for PEEP titration: identification of open lung

Dead space fraction changes during PEEP titration following lung recruitment in patients with ARDS.

BACKGROUND Elevated dead space fraction (the ratio of dead space to tidal volume [V(D)/V(T)]) is a feature of ARDS. PEEP can partially reverse atelectasis, prevent alveoli recollapse, and improve lung compliance and gas exchange in patients with ARDS. However, whether V(D)/V(T) variables have a close relationship with PEEP and collapse alveolar recruitment remains under recognized. Meanwhile, f...

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