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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 58, Issue 5 1496-1504, Copyright © 1985 by American Physiological Society
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D. K. McKenzie and S. C. Gandevia
A multilumen catheter was modified to allow simultaneous recording of transdiaphragmatic pressure (Pdi) and the electromyographic (EMG) activity of the diaphragm. The catheter was used in 20 healthy males to measure the conduction time of the phrenic nerves and the twitch pressure of each hemidiaphragm during single supramaximal shocks delivered to the phrenic nerve in the neck. Diaphragmatic EMG was also recorded with surface electrodes at various sites on the chest wall. The mean conduction time to the crural fibers was 6.82 +/- 0.64 ms on the right and 7.93 +/- 0.85 ms on the left, whereas that to the costal fibers adjacent to the midclavicular line was 7.68 +/- 0.56 ms on the right and 7.92 +/- 0.92 ms on the left. Significant correlations were found between the conduction time of each phrenic nerve and the height and the age of the subjects. Conduction times measured at different EMG recording sites varied by as much as 2 ms. This variability, and that of previously reported values for phrenic conduction time, may be largely accounted for by differences in the conduction distances that were measured to each site in three cadavers. The evoked change in Pdi had a mean rise time of 92 ms and an amplitude of approximately 10 cmH2O.
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