Liquid- and Air-Filled Catheters without Balloon as an Alternative to the Air-Filled Balloon Catheter for Measurement of Esophageal Pressure

• Alessandro Beda ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alessandro Beda, Andreas Güldner

  * E-mail: ale.beda@gmail.com

  Affiliations Pulmonary Engineering Group, Clinic of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Therapy, University Hospital Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Department of Electronic Engineering and Postgraduate Program of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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• Andreas Güldner ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alessandro Beda, Andreas Güldner

  Affiliation Pulmonary Engineering Group, Clinic of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Therapy, University Hospital Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

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• Alysson R. Carvalho,

  Affiliations Laboratory of Respiration Physiology, Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Biomedical Engineering Program, Alberto Luis Coimbra Program of Post-Graduation and Research in Engineering, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Walter Araujo Zin,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Respiration Physiology, Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Nadja C. Carvalho,

  Affiliations Pulmonary Engineering Group, Clinic of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Therapy, University Hospital Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Department of Electronic Engineering and Postgraduate Program of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

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• Robert Huhle,

  Affiliation Pulmonary Engineering Group, Clinic of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Therapy, University Hospital Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

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• Antonio Giannella-Neto,

  Affiliation Biomedical Engineering Program, Alberto Luis Coimbra Program of Post-Graduation and Research in Engineering, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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• Thea Koch,

  Affiliation Pulmonary Engineering Group, Clinic of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Therapy, University Hospital Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

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• Marcelo Gama de Abreu

  Affiliation Pulmonary Engineering Group, Clinic of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Therapy, University Hospital Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

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