Numerical and experimental study of steady-state CO2 and inert gas washout.
Numerical and experimental study of steady-state CO2 and inert gas washout.
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稳态 CO2 和惰性气体冲洗的数值和实验研究。
DOI:
10.1152/jappl.1988.64.3.1022
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发表时间:
1988
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Neufeld,GR
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作者:
Scherer,PW;Gobran,S;Aukburg,SJ;Baumgardner,JE;Bartkowski,R;Neufeld,GR
The predictions of a single-path trumpet-bell numerical model of steady-state CO2 and infused He and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) washout were compared with experimental measurements on healthy human volunteers. The mathematical model used was a numerical solution of the classic airway convention-diffusion equation with the addition of a distributed source term at the alveolar end. In the human studies, a static sampling technique was used to measure the exhaled concentrations and phase III slopes of CO2, He, and SF6 during the intravenous infusion of saline saturated with a mixture of the two inert gases. We found good agreement between the experimentally determined normalized slopes (phase III slope divided by mixed expired concentration) and the numerically determined normalized slopes in the model with no free parameters other than the physiological ones of upper airway dead space, tidal volume, breathing frequency, and breathing pattern (sinusoidal). We conclude 1) that the single-path (Weibel) trumpet-bell anatomic model used in conjunction with the airway convection-diffusion equation with a distributed source term is adequate to describe the steady-state lung washout of CO2 and infused He and SF6 in normal lungs and 2) that the interfacial area separating the tidal volume fron from the functional residual capacity gas, through which gas diffusion into the moving tidal volume occurs, exerts a major effect on the normalized slopes of phase III.