title: Resistive load detection during passive ventilation.
abstract: By using standard psychophysical techniques resistive load detection was estimated in five normal subjects during spontaneous breathing and during passive ventilation in a Drinker respirator. 2. During assisted ventilation a gross deterioration in resistive load detection occurred. 3. The findings imply that active respiratory muscle contraction plays an essential role in the detection of added resistive loads.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000403:Airway Resistance; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011601:Psychophysics; D012119:Respiration; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D012677:Sensation / Q000502:physiology*