Is the Leak Test Reproducible?

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 683-685

  Pettignano, Robert ^a   Holloway, Sharon E ^a   Hyman, Donald ^a   LaBuz, Michele ^a  

^a CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ADOLESCENT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUSCULTATION; CHILD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INSTRUMENTATION; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRESSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

ADOLESCENT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUSCULTATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INFANT; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKADE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRESSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY EDEMA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0034219361     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-200093070-00010     Document Type: Article

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