Tidal Volume

Is there any easy way to explain what Tidal Volume and Minute ventilation are and how they relate to C/A/Bipap therapy?

Date Leak Tidal Vol Resp Avg Minute Vt Pres AHI AI %spnT %spnC Hrs Total Events
L H L H L H
Sep 20, 2010 0.06 540 1020 11 19 9.2 12.6 13.2 3.1 0 0 0 6 18.6
Sep 21, 2010 0.26 560 1040 11 16 8.5 12.6 14.8 3.7 0 0 0 6.2 22.94
Sep 22, 2010 0 540 1340 10 18 9 14.5 15.6 2.8 0 0 0 6.41 17.948
Sep 23, 2010 1.2 540 1340 11 19 9.7 16 16.2 2.4 0 0 0 6.05 14.52
Sep 24, 2010 1.2 580 1140 11 17 9.3 13.1 15.6 4.2 0.1 0 0 9.1 38.22
Sep 25, 2010 0.1 560 1060 10 16 8.6 12.6 15.4 3.7 0 0 0 7.58 28.046
Sep 26, 2010 0.8 560 860 13 17 8.8 11.8 16 3.4 0.1 0 0 6.05 20.57
Sep 27, 2010 0.06 560 920 13 18 9 12.2 15 2.9 0.1 0 0 6.28 18.212
Sep 28, 2010 0 560 840 13 17 9.1 11.8 16.6 3.9 0 0 0 6.16 24.024
Sep 29, 2010 0 580 980 13 18 9.6 13.5 15 2.9 0 0 0 6.51 18.879

Have you done any searching?

Here's one for this forum and I just did a Google search on those words and got lots of links.

viewtopic/t55971/search.php?keywords=tidal+volume


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