Can airway obstruction be estimated by lung auscultation in an emergency room setting?

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 279-285

  Leuppi, Jörg D ^a,b   Dieterle, Thomas ^a   Wildeisen, Irène ^a   Martina, Benedict ^a   Tamm, Michael ^a   Koch, Gian ^a   Perruchoud, André P ^a   Leimenstoll, Bernd M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Airway obstruction; Lung auscultation; Spirometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LUNG AUSCULTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIROMETRY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORAX DISEASE;

EID: 30544437592     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2005.05.005     Document Type: Article

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