Are height and weight estimates in ED patients reliable for setting the ventilator?

Sabrine N T Hemmes, Lorenzo Ball, Ary Serpa Neto, Marcelo Gama de Abreu, Paolo Pelosi, Marcus J Schultz

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Article in The American journal of emergency medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

Impact of sex on use of low tidal volume ventilation in invasively ventilated ICU patients-A mediation analysis using two observational cohorts.PloS one · 2021
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Body mass index is associated with inappropriate tidal volumes in adults intubated in the emergency department.2017
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Body mass index is associated with inappropriate tidal volumes in adults intubated in the ED.2016

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Sabrine N T HemmesDepartment of Anesthesiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Intensive Care, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Lorenzo BallDepartment of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.

Ary Serpa NetoDept. of Intensive Care Medicine, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil.

Marcelo Gama de AbreuPulmonary Engineering Group, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany; Pulmonary Engineering Group, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.

Paolo PelosiDepartment of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.

Marcus J SchultzDepartment of Intensive Care, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Mahidol-Oxford Research Unit (MORU), Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. Electronic address: m.j.schultz@amc.uva.nl.

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Ventilators, MechanicalAdultBody Mass IndexBody WeightHumansTidal Volume

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PMID28610772

DOI10.1016/j.ajem.2017.06.003

PMCPMC8543644

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