Hypoxia following voluntary hyperventilation during exercise in man

Autor: K.B. Saunders, A. R. C. Cummin, R. J. Telford
Rok vydání: 1991
Předmět:
Zdroj: Respiration physiology. 84(2)
ISSN: 0034-5687
Popis: The importance of carbon dioxide in the control of ventilation during exercise was tested by emptying CO 2 stores by voluntary hyperventilation. Healthy subjects were studied after 3 min hyperventilation down to an end-tidal P CO 2 of about 20 mmHg on a background of steady exercise at 75 W. Control runs were performed when the hyperventilation was made isocapnic by the addition of CO 2 . Following hypocapnic hyperventilation, there was a period when ventilation fell below control and this was accompanied by a fall in end-tidal P O 2 (minimum 48 mmHg) and oximeter reading (minimum 73%). Ventilation rapidly returned to baseline following isocapnic hyperventilation and hypoxia was not seen. A mathematical simulation suggested that brain P CO 2 recovered more slowly than arterial P CO 2 and that at the times that ventilation was depressed central chemoreceptor P CO 2 would have been low. We conclude that CO 2 provides a crucial drive for maintaining adequate ventilation during steady exercise and that the central chemoreceptor may be involved.
Databáze: OpenAIRE