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J Appl Physiol 78: 2153-2160, 1995;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 78, Issue 6 2153-2160, Copyright © 1995 by American Physiological Society

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Lung and respiratory impedance at low frequency during mechanical ventilation in rabbits

M. Rotger, R. Peslin, D. Navajas and R. Farre
Laboratorio de Biofisica i Bioenginyeria, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.

We have tested in eight rabbits the feasibility of measuring respiratory (Zrs) and lung (ZL) impedances in the low-frequency domain, including below the breathing frequency (fb), during conventional mechanical ventilation (CMV). The animals were tracheotomized and ventilated with a tidal volume (VT) of 20 ml at a fb of 1 Hz. The excitation signal was provided by a flow generator connected in parallel with the ventilator; it included six components ranging from 0.45 to 14.8 Hz, which met the neither-sum-nor-difference criterion of B. Suki and K. Lutchen (IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 39: 1142-1151, 1992) to minimize the influence of nonlinearities. Zrs and ZL were also measured at the same mean lung volume and with the same excitation signal both during apnea and when the ventilator signal was replaced by a sine wave with the same VT and fb (SMV). The real parts (Re) of both Zrs and ZL, as well as the effective elastances, were significantly larger during apnea than during CMV and SMV over the whole frequency range. Re(Zrs) and Re(ZL) were similar during CMV and SMV above fb but they were lower during CMV at 0.45 Hz. The latter difference seems to be related to the presence of harmonics of fb and of additional frequency components due to pulse amplitude modulation. We conclude that, because of nonlinearities, it is feasible to measure Zrs and ZL during CMV only at and above fb.


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