Data Acquisition in Pulmonary Ventilation

Abstract

Breathing is the fundamental physiological process during which gas exchange between the organism and the environment is done. Respiration has three main components: external respiration, transport respiration and cellular respiration. The external respiration is significant for this chapter and it is defined as exchange of gases between the lungs and the external environment. Transport breathing facilitates the transport of gas through the blood inside the organism, and cellular respiration ensures the exchange of substances, including gas, at cellular level.