Octane in exhaled breath to diagnose acute respiratory distress syndrome in invasively ventilated intensive care unit patients.

Laura A HagensNanon F L HeijnenMarry R SmitAlwin R M VerschuerenTamara M E NijsenInge GevenCristian N PresurăRonald RietmanDominic W FennPaul Brinkman Marcus J Schultz Dennis C J J BergmansRonny M SchnabelLieuwe D J Bos

Published in: ERJ open research (2023)

Octane in exhaled breath has insufficient diagnostic accuracy for ARDS. This disqualifies the use of octane as a biomarker in the diagnosis of ARDS and challenges most of the research performed up to now in the field of exhaled breath metabolomics.

Keyphrases

acute respiratory distress syndrome
mechanical ventilation
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
intensive care unit
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
mass spectrometry
peritoneal dialysis
prognostic factors
patient reported outcomes