Table 1.

Summary of human acute lung injury results.

		T1			T2			T1 Vs. T2	p-values
Patient	Time Studied (min)	Number of Breath	Mean	Standard Error	Number of Breath	Mean	Standard Error	(T2-T1)/T1	FR	T	T*FR
Respiratory Resistance (cmH2O.s.L−1)
1	107	677	10.8	0.05	688	8.9	0.03	−18.2%	<10−80	<10−100	0.022
2	47	639	8.8	0.05	608	7.6	0.04	−13.2%	<10−100	<10−50	0.26
3	60	327	10.58	0.063	419	10.56	0.054	−0.2%	<10−100	0.4	0.71
4	120	895	10.13	0.028	888	10.07	0.028	−0.5%	<10−100	<10−5	0.060
5	129	482	7.2	0.15	203	4.9	0.23	−31.8%	<10−50	0.0049	0.019
Respiratory Elastance (cmH2O.L−1)
1	107	681	16.1	0.06	683	15.0	0.05	−6.4%	<10−10	<10−30	0.0005
2	47	637	43.6	0.20	603	41.0	0.17	−6.0%	<10−150	<10−30	0.020
3	60	326	17.7	0.07	423	16.9	0.06	−4.6%	<10−5	<10−10	0.80
4	120	900	19.5	0.03	898	18.8	0.03	−3.3%	<10−10	<10−30	0.080
5	129	487	13.8	0.30	199	11.6	0.52	−15.8%	0.0043	<10−5	0.34

Note that the differences in the number of breaths used to evaluate R and E are due to removing absolute values larger than the mean plus two standard deviations for each parameter independently.