Decrease of resistance to air flow with nasal strips as measured with the airflow perturbation device

BioMedical Engineering Online

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Wong, Lily S ^a   Johnson, Arthur T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; AIRFLOW PERTURBATION DEVICES (APB); NASAL STRIPS; RESPIRATORY RESISTANCE;

PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIRWAY PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EXHALATION; FACE MASK; FEMALE; FLOWMETER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHALATION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NOSE AIRWAY RESISTANCE; RESPIRATORY AIRFLOW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; DEVICES; DILATATION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; DILATATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 13144290147     PISSN: 1475925X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-925X-3-38     Document Type: Article

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