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Correction to: Predictive validity of a novel non-invasive estimation of effective shunt fraction in critically ill patients

01 October 2020 Editor's note: Please note that this error with the equation was brought to the attention of the journal and the authors by Philip J. Peyton and Luke R. Fletcher, authors of this Letter to the Editor: https://icm-experimental.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40635-020-00318-y

The Original Article was published on 20 August 2019

Correction to: ICMx 7, 49 (2019)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s40635-019-0262-1

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported an error in Eq. 2 of the article; the article is missing brackets.

Please find the correct version (with the brackets added) of the equation in this correction.

The authors apologize for any inconvenience caused.

$$ \frac{Q_S}{Q_T}=\frac{C_{c\hbox{'}}{O}_2-{C}_a{O}_2}{C_{c\hbox{'}}{O}_2-\left({C}_a{O}_2-\frac{VO_2}{Q}\right)} $$

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  • 01 October 2020

    Editor's note: Please note that this error with the equation was brought to the attention of the journal and the authors by Philip J. Peyton and Luke R. Fletcher, authors of this Letter to the Editor: https://icm-experimental.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40635-020-00318-y

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  1. Chang EM, Bretherick A, Drummond GB et al (2019) Predictive validity of a novel non-invasive estimation of effective shunt fraction in critically ill patients. ICMx 7:49 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40635-019-0262-1

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Chang, E.M., Bretherick, A., Drummond, G.B. et al. Correction to: Predictive validity of a novel non-invasive estimation of effective shunt fraction in critically ill patients. ICMx 8, 30 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40635-020-00320-4

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