Proportional assist ventilation reduces the work of breathing during exercise at moderate altitude

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 420-428

  Kleinsasser, Axel ^a   Von Goedecke, Achim ^a   Hoermann, Christoph ^a   Maier, Stephan ^a   Schaefer, Andreas ^a   Keller, Christian ^a   Loeckinger, Alex ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Assisted ventilation; Esophageal pressure measurement; Hemoglobin saturation; Pleural pressure; Pressure time product

Indexed keywords

OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; AUSTRIA; BREATHING EXERCISE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERGOMETER; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXEMIA; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG VENTILATION; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANOXEMIA; AUSTRIA; EXERCISE; HUMANS; INTERMITTENT POSITIVE-PRESSURE VENTILATION; MALE; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; TIME FACTORS; WORK OF BREATHING;

EID: 14644390977     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2004.5.420     Document Type: Article

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