Causes of a high physiological dead space in critically ill patients.docVIP

Available online /content/12/3/148 Commentary Causes of a high physiological dead space in critically ill patients Peter D Wagner Division of Physiology, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, 0623A, La Jolla, CA 92093-0623, USA Corresponding author: Peter D Wagner, pdwagner@ Published: 14 May 2008 Critical Care 2008, 12:148 (doi:10.1186/cc6888) This article is online at /content/12/3/148 ? 2008 BioMed Central Ltd See related research by Niklason et al., /content/12/2/R53 Abstract [4] more than 50 years ago, physiological dead space is a vi