Broad individual immersion-scattering of respiratory compliance likely substantiates dissimilar breathing mechanics

Abstract Head-out water immersion alters respiratory compliance which underpins defining pressure at a “Lung centroid” and the breathing “Static Lung Load”. In diving medicine as in designing dive-breathing devices a single value of lung centroid pressure is presumed as everyone’s standard. On the c...

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Main Authors: Olivier Castagna, Guillaume Michoud, Thibaut Prevautel, Antoine Delafargue, Bruno Schmid, Thomas Similowski, Jacques Regnard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88925-x