Talk:Biphasic Cuirass Ventilation

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Mmoneypenny 20:44, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Huh??

As the ventilation provided by the cuirass is biphasic, it is possible to achieve both large breaths (tidal volumes) and a high respiratory rate (from 6 to 1200 breaths per minute).

That would mean 20 breaths per second. What organisms are we talking about? -- megA (talk) 17:04, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

I was also surprised by that, and assumed somebody had added an extra 0, so I went looking for references, and found High frequency ventilation which mentions 900 breaths per miute. So I guess 1200 is plausible. A Google search for "Biphasic Cuirass Ventilation" 1200 yields a few journal articles which seem to back up this claim, however I don't have access to the full articles and I am not sure whether I should add them as references purely on the basis of a Google summary. Perhaps somebody who is subscribed to these journals could do it. --Angelastic (talk) 17:51, 8 June 2008 (UTC)