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Diffusion and perfusion limited gases and diffusing capacity

Anaesthesia Coffee Break

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Diffusion vs Pefusion Limitation

With exercise, you get an increase of about two to three times this diffusion capacity. The body sort of that is through paly cycthenia ans, through increasing o red your red blood cells in order to increase o two carriage. In patience with am anemia, you'll actually see doc reduced. Anypatience with polysyphenia, you'llactually see your doco normal yor what happens is that with patients with hypothesic respitory disease, with severe diffusioni payment one of the mechanisms that the body sort of increases its diffusing capacity. And then we just went through each of the gases, carbon man oxide, nitrous oxide, oxygen and maybe even carbon dioxide

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