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. 2012 Nov 18;39(1):146–150. doi: 10.1007/s00134-012-2745-3

Table 1.

Patients characteristics and comparison of EVLWI according to different indexations (all measurements)

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Weight correction formulas were used as follows:

Predicted body weight (BW-pred) (kg): Male: 50 + 0.91 × [height (cm) − 152.4]; Female: 45.5 + 0.91 × [height (cm) − 152.4]

Ideal body weight (BW-id) (kg): Male: [height (cm) – 100] × 0.9; Female: [height (cm) − 100)] × 0.85

Adjusted body weight (BW-adj) (kg): Male: BW-id + (BW-act − BW-id) × 0.4; Female: BW-id + (BW-act − BW-id) × 0.4

BMI body mass index, ARDS acute respiratory distress syndrome, CNS central nervous system, EVLW extravascular lung water, EVLWI-pred extravascular lung water index indexed to predicted body weight, EVLWI-act extravascular lung water index indexed to actual body weight, EVLWI-id extravascular lung water index indexed to ideal body weight, EVLWI-adj extravascular lung water index indexed to adjusted body weight

* p < 0.05 vs. EVLWI-pred (assuming EVLWI-pred to be the standard indexation); ** p < 0.001 vs. EVLWI-pred (assuming EVLWI-pred to be the standard indexation)