Evaluation of a simple, potentially individual device for exhaled breath temperature measurement

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 101, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2044-2050

  Popov, Todor A ^a   Dunev, Stefan ^a   Kralimarkova, Tanya Z ^a   Kraeva, Steliana ^a   DuBuske, Lawrence M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Airway inflammation; Asthma; Asthma diagnosis; Asthma treatment; Exhaled breath temperature; Noninvasive methods of assessment of airway inflammation

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; AXILLA TEMPERATURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BREATH ANALYSIS; BREATHING MECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXPIRED AIR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPIROMETRY; STEROID THERAPY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TYMPANIC TEMPERATURE; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASTHMA; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATH TESTS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXHALATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; THERMOMETERS;

EID: 34548237691     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2007.06.005     Document Type: Article

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