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J Appl Physiol 47: 896-906, 1979;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 47, Issue 4 896-906, Copyright © 1979 by American Physiological Society

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Effects of common dead space on inert gas exchange in mathematical models of the lung

J. B. Fortune and P. D. Wagner

Theoretical gas exchange is compared in lung models having two different types of dead space. In one, the dead space of a lung unit is "personal" and contains gas equivalent in composition to its own alveolar gas; in the other, the dead space is "common" and contains mixed gas from all gas-exchanging units. Formal algebraic analysis of tracer inert gas exchange in two-compartment models shows that values of compartmental ventilation and perfusion can be found that establish one and only one personal dead-space model equivalent for every common dead-space model. When the total dead space and distribution of blood flow and ventilation in the two models are the same, common dead space will always result in improved inert gas elimination. Under these conditions, the amount of improvement is usually greatest when the partition coefficient of the inert gas is between 0.1 and 1.0 and when there is greatest disparity in the ventilation-perfusion ratios (VA/Q). In the inert gas elimination technique that analyzes all dead space as personal, the presence of common dead space consistently causes the recovered VA/Q distributions to be narrower than the actual distributions, but the resultant error is small.


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