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BSc (hons)
Alana Harper is a Respiratory and Sleep Physiologist and a Senior Project Coordinator within the Childrens Lung Health team at Telethon Kids Institute. Alana has over ten years experience in management and coordination of respiratory based projects in both a clinical and research setting.
For the last six years she has been working on various Cystic Fibrosis projects which aim to improve long term outcomes for children with CF.
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Publications
October 2022
Normative data for multiple breath washout outcomes in school-aged Caucasian children
The multiple breath nitrogen washout (N2MBW) technique is increasingly used to assess the degree of ventilation inhomogeneity in school-aged children with lung disease. However, reference values for healthy children are currently not available.
Published research Early Childhood Development Children's Lung HealthNovember 2021Quality of life is poorly correlated to lung disease severity in school-aged children with cystic fibrosis
There is no data exclusively on the relationship between health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) and lung disease severity in early school-aged children with cystic fibrosis (CF). Using data from the Australian Respiratory Early Surveillance Team for Cystic Fibrosis (AREST CF) we assessed the relationships between HRQOL, lung function and structure.
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