Lung clearance index: should we really go back to nitrogen washout?
- Sven M. Schulzke⇑ and
- Urs Frey
- S.M. Schulzke, Dept of Neonatology, University Children's Hospital Basel (UKBB), Spitalstrasse 33, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland. E-mail: sven.schulzke{at}unibas.ch
From the authors:
We thank J.G. Nielson for his comments about our editorial related to the consensus statement for inert gas washout measurement using multiple- and single-breath tests recently published in the European Respiratory Journal [1, 2]. Given that we are unable to identify relevant new information concerning the topic at hand, we prefer not to add any further comments and kindly refer to the previously mentioned, very elaborate, consensus statement [2].
Footnotes
Conflict of interest: None declared.
- Received November 20, 2013.
- Accepted November 21, 2013.
- ©ERS 2014