Estimating the effect of lung collapse and pulmonary shunt on gas exchange during breath-hold diving: The Scholander and Kooyman legacy

Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 28-39

  Fahlman, A ^a,d   Hooker, S K ^b   Olszowka, A ^c   Bostrom, B L ^d   Jones, D R ^d  

^a Global Diving Research   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decompression sickness; Diving physiology; Marine mammal; Mathematical modeling; Nitrogen; Oxygen

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTICLE; BREATH HOLDING; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG COLLAPSE; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG VOLUME; NITROGEN UPTAKE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY SHUNT;

ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; DIVING; HEART BYPASS, RIGHT; LUNG; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PRESSURE; PULMONARY ALVEOLI; PULMONARY ATELECTASIS; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; SEALS, EARLESS; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY;

EID: 57749084349     PISSN: 15699048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2008.09.013     Document Type: Article

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