Assessment of gas exchange in lung disease balancing accuracy against feasibility.docVIP

Available online /content/11/6/182 Commentary Assessment of gas exchange in lung disease: balancing accuracy against feasibility Peter D Wagner Division of Physiology, University of California, San Diego, California, USA Corresponding author: Peter D Wagner, pdwagner@ Published: 21 December 2007 Critical Care 2007, 11:182 (doi:10.1186/cc6198) This article is online at /content/11/6/182 ? 2007 BioMed Central Ltd See related research by Karbing et al., /content/11/6/R118 Abstract It should therefore come as no surprise that to fully assess gas exchange in any given patient, one