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 2024/04/19
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: