Pressure signal transmission of five commercially available oesophageal balloon catheters

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 462-465

  Buscher, H ^a   Valta, P ^b   Sydow, M ^a   Thies, K ^a   Burchardi, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Surgical Hospital   (Finland)

Author keywords

Oesophageal pressure; Phrenic nerve stimulation; Work of breathing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; BREATHING MECHANICS; ESOPHAGUS PRESSURE; NERVE STIMULATION; PHRENIC NERVE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0034065673     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001340051182     Document Type: Article

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