• DocumentCode
    346978
  • Title

    Drift of ventilation can lead to unreliable response to alternating breath test in infants

  • Author

    Bouferrache, B. ; Freville, M. ; Gaultier, C.

  • Author_Institution
    Behavioral & Physiol. Adaptations, School of Med., Amiens, France
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    1999
  • Abstract
    Alternating breath test (ABT) evaluated peripheral chemoreceptor function. The ventilatory response to ABT is measured in infant by mean alternation coefficients. The authors´ simulations and measurements show the test can lead to unreliable values if the absolute value of minute ventilation is drifting during the test. The large errors the authors found suggest that ventilation should be de-trended before calculations
  • Keywords
    measurement errors; paediatrics; pneumodynamics; alternating breath test; detrending; mean alternation coefficients; minute ventilation absolute value; peripheral chemoreceptor function; unreliable response; unreliable values; ventilation drift; Analytical models; Hospitals; Medical simulation; Medical tests; Pediatrics; Physiology; Reproducibility of results; Testing; Ventilation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    [Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint
  • Conference_Location
    Atlanta, GA
  • ISSN
    1094-687X
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-5674-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEMBS.1999.802406
  • Filename
    802406