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What's the f/VT ratio?"},{"title":"Clinical decision support integration","prompt":"Run an RSBI calculation for a patient at 18 breaths per minute and 500 mL tidal volume so I can decide whether to proceed with a spontaneous breathing trial."}],"resultDescription":"Returns the RSBI (f/VT) value rounded to one decimal place in breaths/min/L, along with a boolean or flag indicating whether the ratio exceeds 105 breaths/min/L — the Yang and Tobin 1991 threshold above which extubation failure risk is elevated. 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