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Variable apparatus deadspace
Author(s) -
SCOTT P. V.,
JONES R. P.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1991.tb09921.x
Subject(s) - normocapnia , medicine , tidal volume , respiratory minute volume , ventilation (architecture) , anesthesia , volume (thermodynamics) , respiratory system , hypercapnia , anatomy , meteorology , thermodynamics , acidosis , physics
Summary A variable apparatus deadspace was used to maintain normocapnia during artificial ventilation of the lungs in anaesthetised adults. End‐tidal carbon dioxide tension could be varied, if the need arose, within the range 4.0–5.2 kPa in both open and circle breathing systems when a fixed tidal volume of 12 ml.kg −1 and minute volume ventilation of 120 ml.kg −1 .min −1 were employed.