Techniques for Assessing Respiratory Function

摘要: The development of greater understanding lung physiology and the improvement in measuring techniques have given clinician great scope evaluating respiratory disease. This has enabled thoracic physicians to make useful analyses small large airway conduction disorders, assess drive, examine gas distribution within lungs. For evaluation many common chronic problems medicine, simple (three-part) model [55] is inadequate, but critically ill patient this helpful as bulk transport significant problem few sophisticated now medicine are used. Generally there either an acute failure ventilation from a gross mechanical cause or exchange lung. recognition that intensive care patients trouble critical with means different emphasis on monitoring function. Continuous frequent estimates CO2 O2 status essential. Thus devices high reliability accuracy most desirable, preferably requiring no invasion patient. standard for assessment arterial blood analysis, which unfortunately both intermittent invasive.