Modeling the concentration of ethanol in the exhaled breath following pretest breathing maneuvers

• Published in: Annals of biomedical engineering Vol. 23; no. 1; p. 48
• Main Authors: George, S C, Babb, A L, Hlastala, M P
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.01.1995
• Subjects: Air; Breath Tests - methods; Breathing Exercises; Bronchi - blood supply; Capillary Permeability; Ethanol - analysis; Ethanol - blood; Ethanol - pharmacokinetics; Evaluation Studies as Topic; Humans; Humidity; Models, Biological; Models, Statistical; Pulmonary Alveoli - blood supply; Reproducibility of Results; Temperature; Thermal Conductivity

A previously developed mathematical model that describes the relationship between blood alcohol (ethanol) concentration and the concentration of alcohol in the exhaled breath at end-exhalation (BrAC) has been used to quantitate the effect of pretest breathing conditions on BrAC. The model was first...