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Lung gas mixing during expiration following an inspiration of air

✍ Scribed by M.R. Davidson


Book ID
104272131
Publisher
Springer
Year
1975
Tongue
English
Weight
740 KB
Volume
37
Category
Article
ISSN
1522-9602

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✦ Synopsis


The airway system of the lung from the mouth to the pulmonary membrane is modelled by matching a cylindrical model of a pathway through the respiratory region of the lung onto a one-dimensional trumpet model for the conducting airways. The concentration of O2 in gas expired from this model airway system is investigated following an inspiration of air at two different flow rates (10 litres/min and 85 litres/min). In each ease, expiration occurs at the same constant flow rate as that during the previous inspiration. The inspirations, which are studied in an earlier paper, are each of 2 sec duration and begin at a lung volume of 2300 ml and a lung oxygen tension of 98 mm Hg. The equations are solved numerically and plots of expired O2 concentration against time and against expired volume are shown. It is found that at 85 litres/min, gas mixing in the lung is complete after about 0.7 sec of expiration whereas at 10 litres/min, about 2.6 sec of expiration is required for complete equilibration. It is suggested that the experimental alveolar plateau slope is not in general caused by a slow approach to equilibrium of gas concentrations; except at very low flow rates in the early part of the concentration/time plateau.


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