Respiratory care
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Respir Care
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Low tidal volume (VT) ventilation has become the preferred approach in patients in the ICU. Sedation reduces VT by attenuating respiratory drive. Even in deep sedation, some patients exhibit high VT. We aimed to determine factors associated with low VT ventilation in deeply sedated subjects who exhibited an inspiratory effort by examination of the acid/base balance using the Stewart model. ⋯ Despite weak effects of high SID and low ATOT, efficient management of the buffering function might be a feasible strategy to achieve low VT ventilation.