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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Crit Care. 2010 Aug 4;26(3):249–256. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2010.06.005

Figure 4. Boxplot comparing the rate of AFC (ln transformed) in men vs. women.

Figure 4

ventilated at either low (< 8 ml/kg actual body weight) or high tidal volumes (≥ 8ml/kg). There was no difference in the rate of AFC between women (N=10) and men (N=14) ventilated with low tidal volumes. However, women (N=53) ventilated with higher tidal volumes had faster rates of AFC compared to men (N=64) ventilated with higher tidal volumes. *p=0.035 by Mann Whitney U test, ● =outliers and extremes. TV = tidal volume, AFC = alveolar fluid clearance