Table 6

Agreement of cycling asynchrony between two scorers

Type of asynchronyScorer 1
n (% breaths)
Scorer 2
n (% breaths)
ICC (95% CI)Bland-Altman analysis
bias (95% limits of agreement)
Premature cycling88 (4%)124 (5%)0.73 (0.26 to 0.92)−3.6 (−18.7 to 11.5)
Extended cycling45 (2%)50 (2%)0.76 (0.31 to 0.93)−0.5 (−8.6 to 7.6)
Auto-cycling
cycling
5 (<1%)5 (<1%)0.22 (−0.54 to 0.74)0.0 (−2.3 to 2.3)
  • A total of 4603 breaths were analysed with patient ventilator asynchrony reported in 812 and 891 breaths by scorer 1 and scorer 2, respectively.

  • ICC, intraclass correlation coefficient.