Research advances of baby body plethysmography
10.3760/cma.j.issn.2095-428X.2014.16.017
- VernacularTitle:婴幼儿体积描记法研究进展
- Author:
Gaoli JIANG
;
Xiaobo ZHANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Body plethysmography;
Infant;
Lung function;
Advance
- From:
Chinese Journal of Applied Clinical Pediatrics
2014;29(16):1261-1264
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Baby body plethysmography is a well-established technique of lung function determination,which is widely used to access the respiratory development and obstructive airway diseases by precisely measuring tidal breathing,functional residual capacity,and air way resistance.Babies who accept lung function measurements in the baby body plethysmography are under quiet state of spontaneous breathing without any subjective initiative,which results in multiplexed data acquisition,high precision and good repeatability.Clinical application of baby body plethysmography differs in different countries and areas,with the most intensive application in the German-speaking countries.In China,the clinical use of baby body plethysmography still remains in primary stage.Great progress has been achieved in its clinical use during the past 20 years,but there is still a lack of consensus on normal reference values or equations with which to interpret results,which has caused some trouble to diagnosis and identification of respiratory disease.In order to identify the nature and severity of airway disease,it is essential to understand the normal range of plethysmographic values that may occur in healthy infants of similar age,gender and body size.
