Double tracer gas single-breath washout: Promising for clinics or just a toy for research?

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1113-1115

  Latzin, Philipp ^a   Thompson, Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN;

ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOUBLE TRACER GAS SINGLE BREATH WASHOUT; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREND STUDY; VITAL CAPACITY; BREATH ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE;

BREATH TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NITROGEN; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 84928981456     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00111114     Document Type: Editorial

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