Pulmonary Gas Transport and the Regulation of Ventilation at Rest and Exercise.

Abstract

Patients with pulmonary disease and normal men have been studied experimentally to determine, respectively, the pulmonary abnormalities causing arterial hypoxemia and the mechanisms responsible for the hypoxic drive of man during exercise. Forty-seven cases of fibrotic lung disease were analyzed with the aid of a two-compartment lung model which dealt with O2 and CO2 exchange deficiencies due to wasted ventilation and shunted blood flow. Carbon monoxide data analysis is not yet finished. Hypoxic and hypercapneic drives were measured in 8 subjects at rest and at 3 levels of supine bicycle exercise. Both the respiratory mass spectrometer and the fuel cell O2 analyzer underwent substantial improvements during the year. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0746979

Entities

People

  • Giles F. Filley

Organizations

  • University of Colorado Denver

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Blood Flow
  • Carbon Monoxide
  • Data Analysis
  • Dielectric Gases
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Fuel Cells
  • Gases
  • Lung Diseases
  • Mass Spectrometers
  • Spectrometers
  • Ventilation

Readers

  • Cardiovascular Physiology
  • Educational Psychology
  • Immunology and Pathology

Technology Areas

  • Biotechnology