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Abstract
BACKGROUND: The dominant feature of COVID-19-associated ARDS is gas exchange impairment. Extravascular lung water index is a surrogate for lung edema and reflects the level of alveolocapillary disruption. The primary aim was the prediction of extravascular lung water index by the alveolar-arterial oxygen difference. The secondary aims were in determining the relationship between the extravascular lung water index and other oxygenation parameters, the FIO2, end-tidal oxygen concentration, pulmonary oxygen gradient (FIO2 minus end-tidal oxygen concentration), and PaO2.
METHODS: This observational prospective single-center study was performed at the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, The University Hospital in Ostrava, The Czech Republic, during the COVID-19 pandemic, from March 20, 2020, until May 24, 2021.
RESULTS: The relationship between the extravascular lung water index and alveolar-arterial oxygen difference showed only a mild-to-moderate correlation (r = 0.33, P < .001). Other extravascular lung water index correlations were as follows: FIO2 (r = 0.33, P < .001), end-tidal oxygen concentration (r = 0.26, P = .0032), FIO2 minus end-tidal oxygen concentration (r = 0.15, P = .0624), and PaO2 (r = –0.15, P = .01).
CONCLUSIONS: The alveolar-arterial oxygen difference does not reliably correlate with the extravascular lung water index and the degree of lung edema in COVID-19–associated ARDS.
- COVID-19
- alveolar-arterial difference
- alveolar gas equation
- extravascular lung water index
- ARDS
- hypoxemia
- end-tidal O2
Footnotes
- Correspondence: Jan Maca MD, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Ostrava 17, Listopadu 1790/5, Ostrava-Poruba, 708 52, The Czech Republic. E-mail: jan.maca{at}fno.cz
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