Fig. 1From: Three broad classifications of acute respiratory failure etiologies based on regional ventilation and perfusion by electrical impedance tomography: a hypothesis-generating studyFlow chart of the enrolled patients. The control group was postoperative ICU patients without acute respiratory failure; ARF: acute respiratory failure; PED group: patients with pulmonary embolism-related disease; DLD group: patients with diffuse lung involvement disease; FLD group: patients with focal lung involvement disease; CTPA: CT pulmonary angiographyBack to article page