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J Appl Physiol 76: 1560-1565, 1994;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 76, Issue 4 1560-1565, Copyright © 1994 by American Physiological Society

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Precision and accuracy of a noninvasive inert gas washin method for determination of cardiac output in men

O. W. Nielsen, S. Hansen and J. Gronlund
Department of Physiology, University of Odense, Denmark.

Stout et al. (J. Appl. Physiol. 38:913-918, 1975) suggested an open-circuit multibreath (MB) inert gas method for determining pulmonary capillary blood flow (Qc) in anesthetized dogs receiving artificial ventilation. In the present work we investigated the accuracy and reproducibility of the MB method in nine healthy human subjects at spontaneous ventilation, and we compared the MB method with the inert gas rebreathing (RB) method. Qc was calculated at rest and during exercise at 50 or 100 W, and experimental errors were evaluated in computer simulations of a two-alveoli lung model. The calculated mean Qc values of the MB method were 5.56 +/- 1.23 (SD), 10.02 +/- 0.78, and 13.2 +/- 0.84 l/min, and the mean difference (MB Qc - RB Qc) was not significantly different (P > 0.05). The variation in Qc of the MB method was found to be significantly larger than that in Qc of the RB method (P < 0.01). Random measurement errors and uneven distribution of ventilation contributed to the experimental errors. We conclude that the MB method is inferior to the RB method but that the MB method may be useful under exercise conditions.


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