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Coordination of Respiratory Muscles

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Abstract

Coordination of respiratory muscles is an important feature of normal breathing, and it may be critical for survival in subjects with disease of the lungs or chest wall. For simplicity, we sometimes think of inspiratory and expiratory muscles as single units, and we speak of inspiratory drive and expiratory drive as if they were single variables that could be characterized by a single number. Recent work on respiratory muscles has provided us with a different picture of a complex respiratory pump with fine neural control. Here, we will consider those features of the chest wall that make respiratory muscle coordination essential, and we will also consider some of the ways respiratory muscles are coordinated.

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  1. Institut für Anaesthesiologie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Krankenhausstrasse 12, D-8520, Erlangen, Germany

    Erich Rügheimer

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Loring, S.H. (1992). Coordination of Respiratory Muscles. In: Rügheimer, E. (eds) New Aspects on Respiratory Failure. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74943-8_23

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