swisstomography

Member since	May 21, 2015
Twitter Username	@swisstomography
Biography	We make lung function visible without x-rays, with Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) and help patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome ARDS.
URL	http://t.co/hKLEwUAvhU
Hashtags	3 hashtags created
Definitions	3 hashtags defined

Definitions

#EIT

created on May 21, 2015

Electrical Impedance Tomography

#silentspaces

created on May 21, 2015

SilentSpaces analysis refers to functional images, i.e. movies of organ functions, particularly the lung, and denotes elements of those images, for example pixels, which do not change over a period of time, for example, during a breath. The clinical interpretation of SilentSpaces needs further information because several causes can result in SilentSpaces.

#ards

created on May 21, 2015

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. According to the Berlin definition, (The ARDS Definition Task Force* JAMA. 2012;307(23):2526-2533), acute lung injury can be classified as mild, moderate and severe.