1996
DOI: 10.1007/s001340050217
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Cross-talk between the lungs in piglets

Abstract: Hypothesis: During alternating ventilation (AV) (i.e. differential ventilation (DV) of both lungs with a phase difference of half a ventilatory cycle) volume expansion of the inflated lung will occur partly by compression of the opposite lung.Objective: We studied whether and how large an undulating flow would occur out of and into the non-ventilated lung during unilateral ventilation.Design: In 20 anaesthetized, paralysed piglets (11.0_+ 1.0 kg) DV was applied at a rate of 10 breaths per minute (bpm). In 6 an… Show more

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