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#Epi 80 - ICU Primary Snippet 23 - Control of Breathing

ICU Primary PrepCast

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How to Increase Your Minute Ventilation

The ventral respiratory group or the botanjur group, if you like, are expiratory force timing. And both of those combine in the presence of an elevated CO2 to increase your minute ventilation. So as soon as they detect an increase in acidity or an increase in CO2, largely acidity, they respond by massively increasing their firing and their rate of firing... The number of the neurons that are firing. Makes perfect sense, OK?

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