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01-06-2020 | Heart Surgery | Letter to the Editor
Reply to the comments of Dr Fayssoil
Authors:
António Tralhão, Pedro Cavaleiro, Bernard Cholley
Published in:
Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
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Issue 3/2020
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Excerpt
We thank Dr Fayssoil for his interest in our recently published study on diaphragm evaluation using echo. While we acknowledge the clinical relevance of the three questions raised, this study was not designed, nor was it powered, to answer them. Numerous factors can hamper diaphragmatic function after sternotomy [
1] and determining the role of each one individually would certainly require a much larger sample size. …