Esophageal pressure: research or clinical tool?

E Baedorf Kassis, S H Loring, D Talmor

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In one paragraph

Review in Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

6citing papers in PubMed

1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

Transpulmonary Pressure as a Predictor of Successful Lung Recruitment: Reanalysis of a Multicenter International Randomized Clinical Trial.Respiratory care · 2025
Trial
Driving Pressure for Ventilation of Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.Anesthesiology · 2020
Review
Patient-ventilator asynchronies: types, outcomes and nursing detection skills.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2018
Review
Biomedical engineer's guide to the clinical aspects of intensive care mechanical ventilation.Biomedical engineering online · 2018
Review
Should we titrate peep based on end-expiratory transpulmonary pressure?-yes.Annals of translational medicine · 2018
Article
Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation in ARDS: Aspects to Think about for Better Understanding, Evaluation, and Management.BioMed research international · 2018
Review

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

E Baedorf KassisDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, Bulfinch 108, 02114, Boston, MA, USA. enbaedor@bidmc.harvard.edu.

S H LoringDepartment of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Ave, 02215, Boston, MA, USA.

D TalmorDepartment of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, 330 Brookline Ave, 02215, Boston, MA, USA.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · USHarvard University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Esophageal manometry has traditionally been utilized for respiratory physiology research, but clinicians have recently found numerous applications within the intensive care unit. Esophageal pressure (P

Indexed as

EsophagusPositive-Pressure RespirationRespiratory Distress SyndromeHumansManometryPressureRespiration, ArtificialARDSDyssynchronyEsophageal manometryTranspulmonary pressureWeaning

Identifiers

PMID29134245

DOI10.1007/s00063-017-0372-z

OpenAlexW2769311910

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata

Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.