Pulmonary Gas Transport Time: Larynx to Alveolus
- 14 March 1969
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 163 (3872) , 1210-1211
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.163.3872.1210
Abstract
The transport time of gas from the larynx to pulmonary alveolar capillary blood was directly measured by injecting a bolus of carbon monoxide into the inspired airstream of dogs and photoelectrically monitoring the formation of carboxyhemoglobin in the capillaries on the surface of the lung. The rapidity of transit (0.3 second) implies that gas transport during inspiration is facilitated by an interaction between bulk flow and diffusion.Keywords
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