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Bedside Estimation of Nonaerated Lung Tissue Using Blood Gas Analysis*

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2013

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Abstract

During pure oxygen ventilation, logarithmically transformed PaO2/Fio2 allows estimation of CT shunt and its changes in patients during systemic inflammation. Relevant intrapulmonary shunting seems to occur in lung regions with CT numbers between [-200 and +100] Hounsfield Units.

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