Non-Invasive Assessment of Abdominal/Diaphragmatic and Thoracic/Intercostal Spontaneous Breathing Contributions.

ABSTRACT: (1) Background: Technically, a simple, inexpensive, and non-invasive method of ascertaining volume changes in thoracic and abdominal cavities are required to expedite the development and validation of pulmonary mechanics models. Clinically, this measure enables the real-time monitoring of muscular recruitment patterns and breathing effort. Thus, it has the potential, for example, to help differentiate between respiratory disease and dysfunctional breathing, which otherwise can present with similar symptoms such as breath rate. Current automatic methods of measuring chest expansion are invasive, intrusive, and/or difficult to conduct in conjunction with pulmonary function testing (spontaneous breathing pressure and flow measurements). (2) Methods: A tape measure and rotary encoder band syst

SUBMITTER: Guy EFS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10747041 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature