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. 2021 Dec 14;48(3):387–388. doi: 10.1007/s00134-021-06589-7

Correction to: Role of total lung stress on the progression of early COVID‑19 pneumonia

Silvia Coppola 1, Davide Chiumello 1, Mattia Busana 2, Emanuele Giola 1, Paola Palermo 2, Tommaso Pozzi 1, Irene Steinberg 2, Stefano Roli 1, Federica Romitti 2, Stefano Lazzari 2, Simone Gattarello 2, Michela Palumbo 2, Peter Herrmann 2, Leif Saager 2, Michael Quintel 2,3, Konrad Meissner 2, Luigi Camporota 4, John J Marini 5, Stefano Centanni 6, Luciano Gattinoni 2,
PMCID: PMC8669222  PMID: 34905078

Correction to: Intensive Care Med (2021) 47:1130–1139 10.1007/s00134-021-06519-7

The original version of this article unfortunately contained mistakes in Table 2 (wrong confidence interval data of “PEEP” and groups' size). Please find the corrected table below.

Table 2.

Gas-exchange and PEEP test in the ARDS subgroups

Overall (n = 140) No ARDS (n = 17) Mild ARDS (n = 45) Mild-moderate ARDS (n = 33) Moderate-severe ARDS (n = 36) Severe ARDS (n = 9) p value
Gas exchange
PaO2 (mmHg) 104 [79–140] 226 [187–259] 143 [102–151] 112 [100–123] 83.2 [75.9–93.6] 65.1 [59.3–69]  < 0.001*
FiO2 0.6 [0.6–0.7] 0.6 [0.6–0.7] 0.6 [0.5–0.7] 0.7 [0.5–0.7] 0.7 [0.6–0.7] 0.8 [0.7–0.8]  < 0.001*
PaCO2 (mmHg) 37 [33.9–40.7] 38.3 [32.6–42.0] 35.9 [32.6–39] 38.8 [35–41] 36.5 [34.8–40.8] 39 [34.2–39.9] 0.37
pH 7.44 [7.42–7.47] 7.44 [7.42–7.46] 7.45 [7.43–7.48] 7.44 [7.43–7.47] 7.44 [7.42–7.46] 7.43 [7.42–7.45] 0.52
Respiratory rate (bpm) 20 [18–24] 16 [15–20] 21 [18–23] 21 [18–24] 21 [18–25] 20 [18–20] 0.039*
PEEP (cmH2O) 7.5 [7.5–10] 10 [7.5–10] 8 [7.5–10] 8 [7.5–10] 9 [7.5–10] 10 [10–10] 0.24
Esophageal pressure swing (cmH2O) 7 [5–10] 6 [5–7] 7 [5–9] 7 [4–9] 9 [7–12] 7 [5–7] 0.06
Total stress (cmH2O) 14 [11.5–16.3] 13 [11.8–15] 13.2 [11.3–16] 13.8 [11–16] 15.2 [12.9–18.6] 14 [13.3–16.8] 0.12
Borg dyspnea scale 0 [0–1] 0 [0–1] 0 [0–0] 0 [0–0] 0 [0–1] 0 [0–1] 0.34
PEEP-test
SpO2 at 0 cmH2O (%) 97 [93–99] 98 [94–100] 98 [96–99] 98 [95–99] 95 [93–98] 91 [88–94] 0.003*
SpO2 at 10 cmH2O (%) 98 [96–99] 99 [98–100] 99 [97–100] 98 [97–99] 97 [96–98] 94 [94–98] 0.006*
Respiratory rate at 0 cmH2O (bpm) 22 [18–28] 18 [15–20] 22 [18–28] 23 [20–28] 22 [19–27] 24.5 [22–27] 0.010*
Respiratory rate at 10 cmH2O (bpm) 20 [16–24] 16 [15–18] 20 [17–22] 22 [18–25] 20 [17–28] 19.5 [18–21] 0.007*
Esophageal pressure swing at 0 cmH2O (cmH2O) 8 [6–12] 7 [5–7] 8 [5–10] 8 [5–12] 8 [7–15] 8.8 [6–11] 0.36
Esophageal pressure swing at 10 cmH2O (cmH2O) 7 [5–10] 7.5 [6–9] 7 [5–9] 7 [4–9] 9 [7–12] 7 [6–9] 0.07
Total stress at 0 cmH2O (cmH2O) 8 [6–12] 7 [5–10] 8 [5–10] 8 [5–12] 8 [7–15] 9 [6–11] 0.36
Total stress at 10 cmH2O (cmH2O) 14 [12–17] 14.5 [13–16.3] 14 [12–16] 14 [11.3–16.3] 16 [14–18.5] 14 [13.4–15.6] 0.07

The authors apologize for the mistake.

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