Relationship between Total Thoracic , Pulmonary , and Chest Wall Compliances and Respiratory Frequency

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  • STUART BONDURANT
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In 1956 Otis and co-workers (1) compared the behavior of a single pulmonary pathway to an electrical circuit consisting of a capacitor and resistor in series with a sinusoidally varying voltage source. In a pulmonary pathway driven by a sinusoidally varying pressure, the resultant flow curve is also a sine wave and leads the pressure curve by an amount 9, which is determined by the relationship,

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تاریخ انتشار 2013