Key result
Study describes an apparatus measuring breathing changes after abdominal surgery but reports no quantitative results.
Why the study?
Little information is available about changes in the pattern of breathing immediately following abdominal operations despite known decreased diaphragmatic excursions.
Observational
Apparatus described without quantitative results; leaves open its utility for assessing post-operative breathing changes and requires prospective validation.
MULLER et al1and others have observed that diaphragmatic excursions are decreased after abdominal operations. While this is now a well-recognized occurrence, little information is actually available in the literature about changes in pattern of breathing immediately following operations. Our purpose is to describe this in detail and to discuss it in relation to other events which may occur at the same time. Materials and Methods The apparatus used in the main part of this study was a gage which in principle was the same as that described by Whitney2in 1949 as a mercury-in-rubber strain gage. A piece of commercially available latex tubing 29 cm in length with an inner diameter of 3.185 mm and an outer diameter of 4.761 mm was filled with an electrolyte cream used in clinical electrocardiography. The ends of the tubing were sealed with metal plugs which were inserted into the electrolyte
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Arthur J. Okinaka (1966) conducted an observational in Postoperative state. Abdominal operations was evaluated on Changes in pattern of breathing immediately following operations. The abstract describes the apparatus used to measure changes in the pattern of breathing immediately following abdominal operations, but reports no quantitative results.
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