Challenging a paradigm: Positional changes in ventilation distribution are highly variable in healthy infants and children

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 764-771

  Lupton Smith, Alison R ^a   Argent, Andrew C ^a,b   Rimensberger, Peter C ^c   Morrow, Brenda M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b RED CROSS WAR MEMORIAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (South Africa)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

body position; electrical impedance tomography; infants and children; ventilation distribution

Indexed keywords

KRYPTON 81M;

ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BREATHING; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG VENTILATION DISTRIBUTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; BODY POSTURE; IMPEDANCE; LUNG VENTILATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LUNG; MALE; POSTURE; PULMONARY VENTILATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84897455051     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: 10990496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.22893     Document Type: Article

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