Modeling flow in a compromised pediatric airway breathing air and heliox

Laryngoscope

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 145-151

  Mihaescu, Mihai ^a   Gutmark, Ephraim ^a,b   Murugappan, Shanmugam ^b   Elluru, Ravindhra ^b,c   Cohen, Aliza ^c   Willging, J Paul ^b,c  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Heliox; Pediatric airway; Subglottic stenosis

Indexed keywords

HELIOX; HELIUM; OXYGEN;

ACCURACY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AIR; AIRWAY DYNAMICS; ARTICLE; BREATHING; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYSPNEA; FLOW KINETICS; FLOW RATE; LAMINAR AIRFLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; SUBGLOTTIC STENOSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LARYNX STENOSIS; LUNG VENTILATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIATRICS; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIR PRESSURE; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HELIUM; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LARYNGOSTENOSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXYGEN; PEDIATRICS; PULMONARY VENTILATION; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 63249133304     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20015     Document Type: Article

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