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Total dead space (also known as physiological dead space) is the sum of the anatomical dead space and the alveolar dead space. Benefits do accrue to a seemingly wasteful design for ventilation that includes dead space. [1] Carbon dioxide is retained, making a bicarbonate-buffered blood and interstitium possible.
The only source of CO 2 is the alveolar space where gas exchange with blood takes place. Thus the alveolar fractional component of CO 2, F A, will always be higher than the average CO 2 content of the expired air because of a non-zero dead space volume V d, thus the above equation will always yield a positive number.
The dead space can be determined from this curve by drawing a vertical line down the curve such that the areas below the curve (left of the line) and above the curve (right of the line) are equal. Most people with a normal distribution of airways resistances will reduce their expired end-tidal nitrogen concentrations to less than 2.5% within ...
A decrease in perfusion relative to ventilation (as occurs in pulmonary embolism, for example) is an example of increased dead space. [12] Dead space is a space where gas exchange does not take place, such as the trachea; it is ventilation without perfusion. A pathological example of dead zone would be a capillary blocked by an embolus.
An area with ventilation but no perfusion (and thus a V/Q undefined though approaching infinity) is termed "dead space". [6] Of note, few conditions constitute "pure" shunt or dead space as they would be incompatible with life, and thus the term V/Q mismatch is more appropriate for conditions in between these two extremes.
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Deadband is the period of dead-state of a system. A deadband or dead-band (also known as a dead zone or a neutral zone) is a band of input values in the domain of a transfer function in a control system or signal processing system where the output is zero (the output is 'dead' - no action occurs).
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