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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: A novel non-invasive method to detect excessively high respiratory effort and dynamic transpulmonary driving pressure during mechanical ventilation

Patient characteristic

Primary cohort (n = 16)

External validation cohort (n = 12)

N measurements in cohort

52

46

N measurements per patienta

3 (2–5)

3 (1–7)

Age (years) (mean, SD)

63 (10)

60 (57–73)

Sex (n, % female)

7 (44%)

10 (83%)

Cause of respiratory failure (n, %)

 Pneumonia

10 (62%)

10 (83%)

 Non-pulmonary sepsis

2 (13%)

0 (0%)

 Cardiogenic shock

0 (0%)

2 (17%)

 Intracranial hemorrhage

3 (19%)

0 (0%)

 Ischemic stroke

1 (6%)

0 (0%)

Sedation-Agitation Scale scoreb

2 (2–3)

Not reported

Baseline nadir PaO2/FiO2 (mm Hg)

148 (105–173)

Not reported

Mode of ventilation (n days, %)

 Volume assist-control

1 (2%)

–

 Pressure assist-control

9 (17%)

–

 Pressure support

39 (75%)

–

 Not recorded

3 (6%)

–

 Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist

0 (0%)

12 (100%)

ΔPaw (cm H2O)b

5 (3–7)

10 (9–17)

Pmus (cm H2O)b

16 (12–22)

7 (5–9)

ΔPL (cm H2O)b

18 (14–23)

18 (14–22)

  1. Results are presented as median and interquartile range unless otherwise reported
  2. aIn the primary cohort, one measurement was obtained per day; in the external validation cohort, multiple measurements were obtained on the same day at varying NAVA support levels
  3. bValues reported include repeated measurements within subjects over different study days