RT Book, Section A1 Pitts-Kiefer, Alex A1 De Marchi, Lorenzo A2 Freeman, Brian S. A2 Berger, Jeffrey S. SR Print(0) ID 1102569046 T1 Lung Mechanics T2 Anesthesiology Core Review: Part One Basic Exam YR 2014 FD 2014 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9780071821377 LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1102569046 RD 2024/10/07 AB Compliance is a mechanical property used to describe the elastic behavior of the lung, chest wall, or respiratory system as a whole. It is defined as a change in volume (ΔV) divided by the change in pressure (ΔP) needed to cause the change in volume, and can be expressed mathematically as: