Arterial blood-gas values in patients treated with iron lung ventilation (ILV) and invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV)
| ILV | p‐value | IMV | p‐value | |||||
| Admission | 1 h | End of treatment | Admission | 1 h | End of treatment | |||
| Pa,O2/FI,O2 | 192±59.8 | 212.4±52.7 | 283.4±82.2 | 0.0001 | 172±61.7 | 224±76.5 | 269.2±63.8 | 0.0001 |
| Pa,CO2 kPa | 12.8±2.1 | 10.3±2.1 | 7.6±0.5 | 0.0001 | 13.3±2.4 | 9.7±3.0 | 7.2±1.1 | 0.001 |
| pH | 7.20±0.04 | 7.30±0.07 | 7.39±0.03 | 0.0001 | 7.20±0.04 | 7.31±0.09 | 7.39±0.04 | 0.0001 |
Data are presented as mean±sd
Pa,O2: arterial oxygen tension
FI,O2: inspiratory oxygen fraction
Pa,CO2: arterial carbon dioxide tension
p‐Values are the results of one-way analysis of variance