Physiological dead space ventilation, disease severity and outcome in ventilated patients with hypoxaemic respiratory failure due to coronavirus disease 2019

Francesco Vasques¹, Barnaby Sanderson¹, Federico Formenti^{2

3}, Manu Shankar-Hari^{1

4}, Luigi Camporota^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Adult Critical Care, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's Health Partners, St Thomas' Hospital, 1st Floor East Wing, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH, UK.
² Centre of Human Applied Physiological Sciences, King's College London, London, UK.
³ Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁴ School of Immunology and Microbial Sciences, Kings College London, London, SE1 9RT, UK.
⁵ Department of Adult Critical Care, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's Health Partners, St Thomas' Hospital, 1st Floor East Wing, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH, UK. luigi.camporota@gstt.nhs.uk.
⁶ Centre of Human Applied Physiological Sciences, King's College London, London, UK. luigi.camporota@gstt.nhs.uk.

Multicenter Study

Francesco Vasques et al. Intensive Care Med. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;46(11):2092-2093.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-020-06197-x. Epub 2020 Jul 31.

Francesco Vasques¹, Barnaby Sanderson¹, Federico Formenti^{2

3}, Manu Shankar-Hari^{1

4}, Luigi Camporota^{5

6}

¹ Department of Adult Critical Care, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's Health Partners, St Thomas' Hospital, 1st Floor East Wing, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH, UK.
² Centre of Human Applied Physiological Sciences, King's College London, London, UK.
³ Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Nuffield Division of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁴ School of Immunology and Microbial Sciences, Kings College London, London, SE1 9RT, UK.
⁵ Department of Adult Critical Care, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's Health Partners, St Thomas' Hospital, 1st Floor East Wing, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7EH, UK. luigi.camporota@gstt.nhs.uk.
⁶ Centre of Human Applied Physiological Sciences, King's College London, London, UK. luigi.camporota@gstt.nhs.uk.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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