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Before extubation, a loss of lung aeration was observed in patients who developed extubation failure afterwards. After extubation, this loss of lung aeration persisted and was associated with regional lung ventilation heterogeneity. Trial registration Clinical trials, NCT04180410, Registered 27 November 2019-prospectively registered, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04180410 .
Joussellin et al. (Tue,) studied this question.