Gastric mucosal tonometry: Towards new methods and applications

Anasthesiologie Intensivmedizin Notfallmedizin Schmerztherapie, Supplement

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1998, Pages

  Mythen, M G ^a   Woolf, R ^a   Noone, R B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Air tonometry; CO2 gap; Gastric mucosal tonometry; Outcome; phi; Saline tonometry

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CARBON DIOXIDE MEASUREMENT; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMAN; STOMACH MUCOSA; TONOMETRY;

EID: 0031824847     PISSN: 14307790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-994883     Document Type: Conference Paper

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