QUANTITATION OF WHEEZING IN ACUTE ASTHMA

被引:65
作者
BAUGHMAN, RP [1 ]
LOUDON, RG [1 ]
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[1] UNIV CINCINNATI, MED CTR, DEPT MED, DIV PULM DIS, CINCINNATI, OH 45221 USA
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10.1378/chest.86.5.718
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R4 [临床医学];
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1002 ; 100602 ;
摘要
Pulmonary sounds were recorded before and after bronchodilator treatment in 20 patients with acute attacks of asthma. Analysis of the sounds showed that improvement in the forced expiratory volume in 1 s was associated with the following 2 changes in the sound signal: the proportion of the respiratory cycle occupied by wheeze was reduced from 86 to 31% on average and the sound frequency of the highest pitched wheeze was also reduced, from a mean of 440 Hz to 298 Hz.
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