Open AccessVentilatory Response to Carbon Dioxide during Moderate Exercise
Author(s) -
Takahashi Masayoshi,
Mano Yoshihiro,
Shibayama Masaharu,
Yamami Nobuo
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of occupational health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 59
ISSN - 1348-9585
DOI - 10.1539/joh.42.79
Subject(s) - carbon dioxide , respiration , breathing , stressor , medicine , ventilation (architecture) , anesthesia , environmental science , chemistry , physics , meteorology , clinical psychology , organic chemistry , anatomy
Ventilatory Response to Carbon Dioxide during Moderate Exercise: Masayoshi T akahashi , et al . National Institute for Resources and Environment —Elevated carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) concentration is one of the most important physiological stressors with closed‐circuit breathing‐apparatus (CCBA). We determined the ventilatory response to CO 2 during moderate exercise by measuring the relationship between V E and P ET CO 2 . Based on our findings, it is recommended that the permissible inhaled CO 2 limit for CCBA in the Japan Industrial Standard (JIS) be lowered from 3% to 2%, and that the members of a rescue or fire fighter team who use CCBA be selected on the basis of their ventilatory sensitivity to CO 2 .