Department of Medicine and Cardiovascular Research Institute at University of California, San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, M-917, San Francisco, CA 94143-0624, USA.
Crit Care. 2011;15(5):185. doi: 10.1186/cc10346. Epub 2011 Oct 25.
A study published in the previous issue of Critical Care demonstrates that measurement of the pulmonary dead-space fraction is superior to hypoxemia as an indicator of a favorable physiologic response to prone positioning in patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome. These results add to the growing evidence supporting the clinical and research value of measuring pulmonary dead space in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome and using this pulmonary physiologic end-point as one indicator of a favorable response to therapy.
上一期《危重病医学》发表的一项研究表明,与低氧血症相比,测量死腔分数可更好地预测严重急性呼吸窘迫综合征患者俯卧位通气的生理反应良好。这些结果进一步证明了测量急性呼吸窘迫综合征患者死腔的临床和研究价值,并将该肺生理终点作为治疗反应良好的指标之一。