Size matters: An observational study investigating estimated height as a reference size for calculating tidal volumes if low tidal volume ventilation is required

• Benjamin Sasko ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: benjamin.sasko@rub.de

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Brandenburg Medical School, University Hospital Brandenburg, Germany, Department of Cardiology, Marienhospital Herne, Ruhr-University Bochum, Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8157-9875

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• Ulrich Thiem,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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• Martin Christ,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Marienhospital Herne, Ruhr-University Bochum, Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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• Hans-Joachim Trappe,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Marienhospital Herne, Ruhr-University Bochum, Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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• Oliver Ritter ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Oliver Ritter, Nikolaos Pagonas

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Brandenburg Medical School, University Hospital Brandenburg, Germany

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• Nikolaos Pagonas

  Contributed equally to this work with: Oliver Ritter, Nikolaos Pagonas

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Brandenburg Medical School, University Hospital Brandenburg, Germany, Department of Nephrology, Marienhospital Herne, Ruhr-University Bochum, Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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