Figure 1

Assessment of the lung water content. The figure shows the thermodilution-derived extravascular lung water index (EVLWI), the EVLWI changes over time (delta EVLWI), the calculated alveolar fluid clearance (AFC) over six hours, and the post-mortem gravimetric wet/dry (W/D) ratio of the lung. Bars represent median (IQR). * indicate P < 0.05 versus the baseline or 3 h-value, # indicates P < 0.05 in the intergroup comparison. According to the study’s hypotheses no comparisons between RD-TIP-A and SD-TIP-B were drawn.