RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Radioaerosol Delivery and Clearance in Patients with Respiratory Failure
JF Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
JO J. Nucl. Med. Technol.
FD Society of Nuclear Medicine
SP 171
OP 176
VO 15
IS 4
A1 Jacobs, Martin P.
A1 Tennenberg, Steven D.
A1 Baughman, Robert P.
YR 1987
UL http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/15/4/171.abstract
AB A technique for radioaerosol delivery to patients requiring mechanical ventilation is described. Ventilation images and pulmonary radioaerosol clearance rates were successfully obtained in 35 patients regardless of ventilator type or level of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP). Those patients with noncardiogenic pulmonary edema (NPE) had significantly increased clearance rates relative to those patients in whom NPE was not present.