Inhaled furosemide greatly alleviates the sensation of experimentally induced dyspnea

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 161, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1963-1967

  Nishino, Takashi ^a   Ide, Tohru ^a   Sudo, Tomoko ^a   Sato, Jiro ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUROSEMIDE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERCAPNIA; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; NEBULIZATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PNEUMOTACHYGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0034086538     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.161.6.9910009     Document Type: Article

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