Dialectical behavior therapy: is outpatient group psychotherapy an effective alternative to individual psychotherapy?
This study is a first attempt in showing that DBT in an outpatient group setting can be effective in reducing psychiatric complaints and therefore has several advantages, such as the opportunity to treat more patients at once.
ETT connections and secretions cause a variance in resistance. Tracheal pressure can be measured with high precision with an air- or liquid-filled catheter. An end hole catheter placed within 2 cm above or below the ETT tip will give sufficiently precise measurements for clinical purposes.