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Diaphragm and phrenic pacing

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Part of: Neuromodulation

What belongs here

Electrical stimulation of the diaphragm or phrenic nerve to replace or support breathing.

What does not belong here, however close it looks

Respiratory training without stimulation belongs to the respiratory-function concept.

What has been looked at

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  • Registered or indexed as work in people: 2188 records · 1950–2026
  • Indexed as work in animals: 522 records · 1975–2026
  • Indexed as laboratory work: 7 records · 1987–2025
  • The source has not said who or what was studied: 70 records · 1980–2026
  • No matching published catalogue records are linked above. Human-review status must be checked on the evidence itself.

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Where this was looked for, and when

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ClinicalTrials.govlatest collection walk returned no recordsasked on 2026-09-29
Collection window: 2026-09-16 – 2026-09-29
matched in this collection walk 0 · accumulated records across collection walks 5 · still to fetch in this walk 0aim: every record matching this question
Crossrefasked, and it answeredasked on 2026-09-16
Collection window: all dates before the end date – 2026-09-16
matched in this collection walk 1073202 · accumulated records across collection walks 50aim: a sample of the most relevant records. This source ranks a bag of words, so its own total is the size of the corpus that shares some of them, never a set still owed.
PubMedasked, and it answeredasked on 2026-10-12
Collection window: 2026-09-16 – 2026-10-12
matched in this collection walk 4 · accumulated records across collection walks 2820 · still to fetch in this walk 0aim: every record matching this question
The question asked
  • ClinicalTrials.gov("diaphragm pacing" OR "phrenic nerve pacing" OR "phrenic nerve stimulation")
  • Crossrefspinal cord injury diaphragm pacing phrenic nerve pacing
  • PubMed("Spinal Cord Injuries"[MeSH Terms] OR "spinal cord injury"[Title/Abstract] OR "spinal cord injuries"[Title/Abstract] OR "spinal cord trauma"[Title/Abstract]) AND ("Phrenic Nerve"[MeSH Terms] OR "Electric Stimulation Therapy"[MeSH Terms] OR "diaphragm pacing"[Title/Abstract] OR "phrenic nerve pacing"[Title/Abstract] OR "phrenic nerve stimulation"[Title/Abstract])

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