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Available online /content/12/1/407 Letter Clinical relevance of the PaO /FiO2 ratio 2 Mohamad F El-Khatib1 and Gassan W Jamaleddine2 1American University of Beirut, PO Box 11-0236, Beirut 1107-2020 Lebanon 2SUNY, Downstate Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11203, USA Corresponding author: Mohamad F El-Khatib, mk05@.lb Published: 14 February 2008 Critical Care 2008, 12:407 (doi:10.1186/cc6777) This article is online at /content/12/1/407 ? 2008 BioMed Central Ltd See related research by Karbing et al., /content/11/6/R118 We read with interest the report by Karbing an