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Available online /content/10/6/170 Commentary Can passive leg raising be used to guide fluid administration? Daniel De Backer Department of Intensive Care, Erasme University Hospital, Route de Lennik 808, B-1070 Brussels, Belgium Corresponding author: Daniel De Backer, ddebacke@ulb.ac.be Published: 8 November 2006 Critical Care 2006, 10:170 (doi:10.1186/cc5081) This article is online at /content/10/6/170 ? 2006 BioMed Central Ltd See related research by Lafanechère et al., /content/10/4/R132 Abstract [1] used esophageal Doppler to monitor cardiac output and reported that a PLR-ind