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Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 4/2004

01-04-2004 | Physiological Note

Dead space

Authors: U. Lucangelo, L. Blanch

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 4/2004

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Dead space is that part of the tidal volume that does not participate in gas exchange. Although the concept of pulmonary dead space was introduced more than a hundred years ago, current knowledge and technical advances have only recently lead to the adoption of dead space measurement as a potentially useful bedside clinical tool. …
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Metadata
Title
Dead space
Authors
U. Lucangelo
L. Blanch
Publication date
01-04-2004
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 4/2004
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-004-2194-8

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