Hygienic safety of an ultrasonic flow sensor for multiple breath washout

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 99-100

  Fuchs, Susanne I ^a   Gappa, Monika ^a   Waltner Romen, Maria ^b   Ellemunter, Helmut ^b  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BREATHING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; HUMAN; HYGIENE; LETTER; MICROBIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SAFETY; SENSOR; ULTRASONIC FLOW SENSOR;

CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; HUMANS; HYGIENE;

EID: 58149494607     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: 10990496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.20941     Document Type: Letter

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