Skip to main content
Figure 8 | Critical Care

Figure 8

From: Equipment review: Pulmonary uptake and modes of administration of inhaled nitric oxide in mechanically-ventilated patients

Figure 8

Correlation between the alveolar deadspace and the percentage of fluctuation of tracheal NO concentration (TRACH-NO) while administering 6 ppm of NO to 11 patients with ARDS. There is an inverse correlation between the two values suggesting that the pulmonary uptake of NO decrease with an increase in the alveolar dead space. Points 1 and 2 relate to one of the patients who was studied twice: during the acute phase of ARDS (point 2 corresponding to an alveolar dead space of 37%) and during the phase of recovery from ARDS (point 1 corresponding to an alvealor dead space of 14%). Published with permission [13].

Back to article page

Critical Care

ISSN: 1364-8535