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The cuff-leak test: what are we measuring?
Stridor is one of the most frequent causes of early extubation failure. The cuff-leak test may help to identify patients at risk to develop post-extubation laryngeal edema. However the discrimination power of the cuff-leak test is highly variable and can be use, at best, to detect patients at risk t...
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BioMed Central
2005
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1065116/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15693980 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc3031 |