Published in:
01-04-2004 | Physiological Note
Dead space
Authors:
U. Lucangelo, L. Blanch
Published in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Issue 4/2004
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Excerpt
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. …