When you breathe, a certain fraction of your air enters the lungs and blood flows through the capillaries. When this ratio is above or below 0.8, you may have ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) mismatch. A V ...

A discrepancy between the predicted ventilation standards and the actual ventilation requirements may be caused by an increase in the physiologic dead space or by an increased carbon dioxide ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers split the total cohort into five groups. All groups minus immunocompromised patients with hypoxemia ...