The neglected value of phosphate ion for respiratory functions in cardiac surgery

Hypophosphatemia in critically ill adults and children – A systematic review

“…Eight prospective and 8 retrospective observational studies included a median of 190 participants (range [15, 19,31,34,36,40,48,[51][52][53][54][55][65][66][67][68] . Source of bias (Supplement 2), other than retrospective design[15, 19,34,52,54,65,68], included a selection bias due to the inclusion being based on availability of phosphate measurements[19,34,36,54,67,68].…”