Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 111-120 , March 2003

The effect of dobutamine infusion on fractional diaphragm thickening and diaphragm blood flow during fatigue

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☆ Financial support provided by NIH-NRSA 5 F31 NRO7341-02.

☆☆ Work performed at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

★ Reprint requests: Nan Smith-Blair, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, Eleanor Mann School of Nursing, 217 Ozark Hall, Fayetteville, AR 72701.

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doi: 10.1067/mhl.2003.13

Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care
Volume 32, Issue 2 , Pages 111-120 , March 2003

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