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Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 6/2009

01-06-2009 | Correspondence

Reply to Fontana et al.

Authors: Andrew D. Marchese, Daniel Chipman, Pedro de la Oliva, Robert M. Kacmarek

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 6/2009

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We would like to thank Dr. Fontana et al. [1] for their letter addressing our recent publication on the performance of adult ICU ventilators providing neonatal ventilation [2]. They raise two important issues regarding our data that we will address here: (1) trigger pressure and trigger delay, and (2) the variability of our data. …
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Metadata
Title
Reply to Fontana et al.
Authors
Andrew D. Marchese
Daniel Chipman
Pedro de la Oliva
Robert M. Kacmarek
Publication date
01-06-2009
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 6/2009
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-009-1475-7

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