Determination of functional residual capacity (FRC) by multibreath nitrogen washout in a lung model and in mechanically ventilated patients. Accuracy depends on continuous dynamic compensation for changes of gas sampling delay time

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 487-493

  Wrigge, H ^a,b   Sydow, M ^a   Zinserling, J ^b   Neumann, P ^a   Hinz, J ^a   Burchardi, H ^a  

^a Zentrum Anaesthesiologie   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute lung injury; Aged; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Critical care; Functional residual capacity; Lung volume measurement; Mechanical ventilation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FUNCTIONAL RESIDUAL CAPACITY; GAS ANALYSIS; GAS FLOW; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG MODEL; NITROGEN WASHOUT;

ADULT; BREATH TESTS; CALIBRATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FUNCTIONAL RESIDUAL CAPACITY; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; NITROGEN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; TIME FACTORS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0031777354     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001340050601     Document Type: Article

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