Blood flow, not hypoxia, determines intramucosal PCO2.docVIP

Available online /content/9/2/149 Commentary Blood flow, not hypoxia, determines intramucosal PCO2 Guillermo Gutierrez Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA Corresponding author: Guillermo Gutierrez, ggutierrez@ Published online: 28 February 2005 Critical Care 2005, 9:149-150 (DOI 10.1186/cc3489) This article is online at /content/9/2/149 ? 2005 BioMed Central Ltd See related research by Dubin et al. in this issue [/content/9/2/R66] Abstract in determining the adequacy of tissue oxy