Measurement of tracheal humidity and temperature

Respiration

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 324-328

  Liener, Kristina ^a   Dürr, Jochen ^a   Leiacker, Richard ^a   Rozsasi, Ajnacska ^a   Keck, Tilman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gas conditioning; Humidity; Temperature; Tracheostomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL ORGAN; BREATHING PATTERN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMIDIFIER; HUMIDITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSOR; STOMA; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TRACHEA; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRACHEOTOMY;

BODY TEMPERATURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THERMOMETERS; TRACHEA; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 33646539445     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000088659     Document Type: Article

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