ArticleBMC pulmonary medicine2026
Early change in ventilatory ratio during prone positioning and 28-day mortality in patients with ARDS: a retrospective cohort study with exploratory eICU assessment.
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Abstract
backgroundProne positioning (PP) improves outcomes in moderate-to-severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), but early bedside markers that reliably characterize physiological response remain uncertain. The ventilatory ratio (VR), calculated from minute ventilation, PaCO
methodsMIMIC-IV v3.1 was used as the primary retrospective cohort and eICU-CRD v2.0 as an exploratory cohort. Adult patients with moderate-to-severe ARDS receiving an initial PP session lasting at least 12 h were included. The primary exposure was exploratory VR response, defined as ∆VR% ≤ -20% using the nearest available post-PP VR within the predefined observation window. The minimum post-PP VR within 12 h was analyzed as a sensitivity definition.
resultsThe primary MIMIC-IV cohort included 177 patients, with 73 deaths within 28 days. Only 6 patients were classified as VR responders under the primary nearest post-PP VR definition. Crude 28-day mortality was 33.3% among responders and 41.5% among non-responders; the unweighted Cox model did not show a statistically significant association (HR 0.79, 95% CI 0.20-3.08; P = 0.737). Adjusted and IPTW-weighted models were considered exploratory and not reliably estimable because the responder group contained only 6 patients and 2 deaths. Sensitivity analyses using the minimum post-PP VR definition produced a stronger but definition-sensitive signal, whereas analyses using absolute VR change or baseline/post-PP VR did not confirm a stable association. In eICU-CRD, 29 patients had complete core VR data and only 3 were responders.
conclusionsEarly VR change during PP was not significantly associated with 28-day mortality under the primary nearest post-PP VR definition. This study supports the feasibility of extracting dynamic VR metrics from routinely collected ICU data, but does not establish VR response as a validated prognostic marker or clinical threshold.
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