Open AccessNew apparatus for determining the basic metabolism (AOV type)
Author(s) -
M. I. Abdrakhmanov,
I. A. Logvinov
Publication year - 1957
Publication title -
kazanskij medicinskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-9359
pISSN - 0368-4814
DOI - 10.17816/kazmj101721
Subject(s) - carbon dioxide , christian ministry , bellows , volume (thermodynamics) , oxygen , chemistry , process engineering , chemical engineering , organic chemistry , engineering , mechanical engineering , thermodynamics , political science , physics , law
By order of the Ministry of Health of the USSR, the team of the Kazan Design Bureau designed and tested a new, closed-type apparatus for determination of basal metabolism. A distinctive feature of the new apparatus from similar apparatuses of other types (Douglas-Holden, Mole, etc.) is that it makes it possible to conduct basic metabolism tests in humans in three ways: with pure oxygen alone (bellows volume - 6 liters); with a gas mixture of 30 liters of atmospheric air and 6 liters of pure oxygen, with a chemical carbon dioxide absorber turned off, or with the same gas mixture with a carbon dioxide absorber turned on.