Gas volume corrections in intensive care unit: needed or pointless?

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"We applied the same approach to 448 consecutive adults (>18 yr) with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure due to COVID-19 pneumonia, admitted to the Department of Adult Critical Care at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, between March 2020 and March 2021. This retrospective study was registered in the United Kingdom as a service evaluation (number 10796) with a waiver of consent for the use of anonymized retrospective data accrued though provision of routine clinical services. All procedures were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975. Data were anonymized locally before entry into the central database."