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  • 标题:Comparison between maximal respiratory pressures obtained from digital and analog manovacuometer in healthy children
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  • 作者:Janiara Borges da Costa Melo ; Tânia Fernandes Campos ; Diana Amélia de Freitas
  • 期刊名称:Journal of Respiratory and CardioVascular Physical Therapy
  • 印刷版ISSN:2238-4677
  • 出版年度:2012
  • 卷号:1
  • 期号:2
  • 页码:44-50
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Journal of Respiratory and CardioVascular Physical Therapy
  • 摘要:Background: The assessment of respiratory muscle strength in children is needed for clinical reasons; the instrument used to measure the strength of respiratory muscles is the manometer, which can be either analog or digital.Objectives: To compare the values obtained by analog and digital manometer in healthy children aged between 7 to 11 years old. Methods: 49 schoolchildren (25 boys) from public schools were assessed. Anthropometric measurements were collected in addition to the measurement of maximal respiratory pressures by analog and digital manometer. The paired Student’s t test was used to compare the measurements of maximal inspiratory and expiratory pressures obtained by the two instruments. The Bland-Altman analysis assessed mean differences (BIAS) and agreement between the equipment’s used. Results: No significant difference between values for maximal respiratory pressures in both devices. However, Bland-Altman analysis showed large limits of agreement between the values obtained by the two manometers. Conclusion: Data from this study demonstrate that, although no significant differences were observed between the measures obtained by the two devices in a sample of healthy children, agreement between them showed a clinically unacceptable range for measures of maximal respiratory pressure.
  • 关键词:Respiratory muscles; Muscle strength; Evaluation; Diagnostic equipment; Child.
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