🫁 Pulmonary Mechanics Lab: Compliance, Resistance, Time Constant and Altitude Gas Exchange

An X-ray style Blender chest with ribs, diaphragm, lungs and a bronchial tree, driven by the equation of motion Pmus = V/C + R dV/dt. Compare healthy, asthma, emphysema, fibrosis, exercise and Everest: time constant and air trapping, closed-glottis Boyle's law, alveolar ventilation, PACO2 = 0.863 VCO2/VA, the alveolar gas equation and diffusion-limited oxygen loading in a capillary.