The pediatric airway : cry, stridor, and cough /
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| Imprint: | San Diego : Plural Publishing Inc., [2015] |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11241353 |
Table of Contents:
- Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. The Sound Phenomena Investigated: Cry, Stridor, and Cough; Cry; Stridor; Cough; Chapter 3. Historical Background; The Infant Cry; Stridor; Cough; Chapter 4. Patients; Chapter 5. Methods; Conventional Examination Methods, Their Critical Analysis and Sphere of Indication; Examination in Cases with Pathologic Phonation, Unusual Infant Cry; Evaluation of Stridor; Evaluation of Cough; Basic Principles of Acoustics, Methods of Acoustic Investigation, Sound Spectrography; The Acoustic Structure of Sound phenomena.
- Voiced Sounds (frequency characteristics)Noise; Aphonia; Duration (length) of Sounds; Intensity; Melody of the Cry; Resonance Components; Applied Methods for Acoustic Analysis; Sound Spectrography; Minimal Time Interval Spectrum; Measurement of the Fundamental Frequency; Analysis of the Infant Cry with Digital Signal Processing (DSP); Why Analyze?; The Infant Cry as an Acoustic Signal; Data Collection; Available Techniques to Record theInfant Cry; Database; Preprocessing of the Infant Cry; Filtering; Segmentation; Processing of the Infant Cry; Attributes in the Time Domain.
- Discrete Fourier TransformAcoustic Attributes in the Spectrum; Methods for Detecting Fundamental Frequency; Detecting the Melody Contour of the Infant Cry; Digital Spectrograph; Results; Duration of Cry Segments; Fundamental Frequency; Development of the Fundamental Frequency; Melody of the Infant Cry; Evaluation; Sound in Medicine; Noninvasive Diagnostic Methods; Nasometry; Bioinformatics and Genomics; Chapter 6. Characterization and Acoustic Description of the Most Commonly Occurring Sound Signals; Cries; Clear (pure, regular, normal) Cry; Veiled Cry; Hoarse Cry.
- Hyperfunctional (tense) CryPressed (forced) Cry; Raucous (harsh) Cry; Crackling Cry; Sharp Cry; Shrill (piping, shrieking, screeching) Cry; Creaking Cry; Very High (high-pitched) Cry; Bleating (quavering) Cry; Sizzling (fizzling, crepitating) Cry; Faint (inert, weak, languid) Cry; Wan (meager, low-energy) Cry; Bitonal Cry; Broken Phonation (breaking, breaklike) Cry; Aphonic Cry; Hollow (cavernous) Cry; Dull (colorless) Cry; Types of Stridor; Pharyngeal-type Stridor; Interrupted Pharyngeal Stridors (with quasiperiodic acoustic structure); Sawing (buzzing) Stridor; Rasping Stridor.
- Croaky StridorSnoring (snorting, stertorous, grunting) Stridor; Bubbling (gurgling) Stridor; Divided Pharyngeal Stridor; Lump-in-the-Throat Stridor; Supraglottic Stridor (high, sharp, and loud inspiration and expiration); Cackling (clucking) Stridor; Hissing (whistling, sibilant) Stridor; Stridor-Phonation; Crowing Stridor; Stridor of Subglottic Character; Deep-Hollow Stridor; Hollow Stridor; Tracheal Stridor; Spastic (wheezy) Expiratory Stridor; Coughing Sounds; Nondescript Cough; Catarrhal Cough; Barking Cough; Cough-Phonation; Deep Cough; Hollow Cough; Ringing Cough; Brassy, Ringing Cough.