What is your pulmonary ventilation

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You are approaching your final exam in Quantitative Physiology and you are nervous and find yourself hyperventilating. Your tidal volume is now 0.6L and your breathing fre- quency is 20 min! Assume your dead space volume is 150 ml. Normally your tidal volume is 0.5 L, breathing frequency is 12 min', and Paco, is 40 mmHg.

A. What is your pulmonary ventilation?

B. What is your alveolar ventilation?

C. If your Qco, has not changed from 200 mL min what is your new Paco,?

D. Based the normal buffer line in Figure 6.5.3, estimate your plasma pH.

E. Name your acid-base status.

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