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British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2000, Vol. 85, No. 3 371-378
© 2000 The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia

Estimation of pulmonary blood flow from sinusoidal gas exchange during anaesthesia: a theoretical study

M. J. Turner1, D. Weismann2, G. G. Járos1 and A. B. Baker1

1Department of Anaesthesia, The University of Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia. 2Drägerwerk AG, Moislinger Allee 53–55, D-23542 Lübeck, Germany*Corresponding author

We simulated the use of simultaneous sinusoidal changes of inspired O2 and N2O (Williams et al., J Appl Physiol, 1994; 76: 2130–9) at fractional concentrations up to 0.3 and 0.7, respectively, to estimate FRC and pulmonary blood flow (PBF) during anaesthesia, using O2 as an insoluble indicator. Hahn’s approximate equations, which neglect the effect of pulmonary uptake and excretion on expiratory flow, estimate dead space and alveolar volume (VA) with systematic errors less than 10%, but yield systematic errors in PBF which are approximately proportional to FIN2O in magnitude. A correction factor (1 – )–1 for Hahn’s equations for PBF (where is the mean partial pressure of the soluble indicator) reduces the dependence of PBF estimates on FIN2O, and the solution of equations describing the simultaneous mass balance of both indicators yields accurate results for a wide range of mean FIN2O. However, PBF estimates are sensitive to measurement errors and a third gas must be present to ensure that the indicator gases behave independently.

Br J Anaesth 2000; 85: 371–8


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