Airway cross section strongly influences alveolar plateau slope of capnograms for smaller tidal volumes

Respiration Physiology

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 51-55

  Huang, Johnnie W ^a   Yang, Geoffrey C ^a   Scherer, Peter W ^a   Neufeld, Gordon R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gas exchange, capnogram, slope; Mammals, humans; Mixing, lung gas; Model, pulmonary gas mixing

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AIRWAY; ARTICLE; CAPNOGRAPHY; GAS EXCHANGE; HUMAN; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG DIFFUSION; MALE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIDAL VOLUME;

ADULT; CARBON DIOXIDE; HUMANS; LUNG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; TIDAL VOLUME;

EID: 0033969009     PISSN: 00345687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-5687(99)00099-7     Document Type: Article

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