Dead Space Volume
If the total volume of expired air be 500 ml and the dotted area represents the alveolar air and the hatched area be dead space air.
Dead space volume. Dead space ventilation the portion of a tidal volume that does not contribute to gas exchange was first described and calculated by the bohr equation in 1891 1 and later by the enghoff modification of the bohr equation in 1938. It is approximately 300 ml in normal lungs. It is approximately 2 ml kg in the upright position.
Volume of the conducting airways approximately 150 ml. Cm and the area of hatching 30 sq. There are two different ways to define dead space anatomic and physiologic.
Generally an young adult breathes in 500ml of air which is called tidal volume. Since the total volume of expired air 500 ml the dead space air 30 30 70 or 150 ml. It is ventilation without perfusion.
In fowler s original study the anatomic dead space was 156 28 ml n 45 males or 26 of their tidal volume. The anatomic dead space is the gas volume contained within the conducting airways. Alveolar dead space is the volume of gas which fills lung units which are underperfused not perfused not participating in gas exchange pick the description which produces the fewest furrows in the examiner s brow it is the difference between physiological dead space and anatomical dead space.
Dead space is the portion of each tidal volume that does not take part in gas exchange. 150ml of tidal volume occupies anatomical dead space. Let us assume that the area of dots 70 sq.
The value increases slightly with large inspirations because the radial traction exerted on the bronchi by the surrounding lung parenchyma increases their size. Dead space is the volume of a breath that does not participate in gas exchange. Anatomical dead space volume represents an amount of air that does not participate in gaseous exchange because it is retained in the respiratory tract and can not reach vascularised alveoli.