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J Appl Physiol 67: 1525-1534, 1989;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 67, Issue 4 1525-1534, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Diaphragmatic electromyography using a multiple electrode array

J. A. Daubenspeck, J. C. Leiter, J. F. McGovern, S. L. Knuth and E. J. Kobylarz
Department of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire 03756.

We have developed a new technique for diaphragmatic electromyography using an array of seven sequential electrode pairs at 1.0-cm spacing on an esophageal catheter. This array provides information about the spatial distribution of the electrical field generated by the diaphragm and reveals a sharply peaked variation of electrical potential with distance along the esophagus. The rectified and integrated information from each of the seven pairs is summed to give an approximation to the total electrical activity over the span of the array, providing a signal that is relatively insensitive to the position of the array over approximately 4 cm of catheter movement and removes the requirement for balloon stabilization of the catheter. With our array, we have confirmed the artifact in the evoked compound muscle action potential that seems to be related to diaphragmatic shape as reported by others who used supramaximal phrenic nerve stimulation, but the magnitude of this artifact (compared with the functional residual capacity level) was modest near functional residual capacity, averaging 12 +/- 14% (SD) for lung volumes 1.0 l above and -4 +/- 15% for lung volumes 1.0 l below functional residual capacity along the rib cage-abdomen relaxation line.


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