Diagnostic exhalations could inform treatments

Friday, November 7, 2014 - 04:31 in Health & Medicine

By analyzing carbon dioxide in the breath, an algorithm could help determine how to treat patients. The algorithm determines whether a patient is suffering from emphysema or heart failure based on readings from a capnograph -- a machine that measures the concentration of carbon dioxide in a patient's exhalations.

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