Application of a new method for analysis of exhaled gas in critically ill patients

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 415-421

  Schubert, J K ^a   Muller W P E ^a   Benzing, A ^a   Geiger, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acetone; Gas chromatography; Isoprene; Lipid peroxidation; Microwave desorption; N pentane

Indexed keywords

ISOPRENE; PENTANE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BREATH ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EXPIRED AIR; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS;

ADULT; AGED; BREATH TESTS; CALIBRATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0031799703     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001340050589     Document Type: Article

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