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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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Autor principal: De Backer, Daniel
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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