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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 10.
Published in final edited form as: Intensive Care Med. 2010 Nov 10;37(2):257–262. doi: 10.1007/s00134-010-2066-3

Table 2.

Gas compositions

N2 O2 Ar CO2 H2O
Inspiratory flow (fresh air) Mass Fraction (%) 72.5 22.2 1.2 0.0 3.9
Volume Fraction (%) 73.3 19.7 0.9 0.0 6.2
Expiratory flow (exhaled air) Mass Fraction (%) 71.1 16.6 1.2 7.2 3.9
Volume Fraction (%) 73.3 15.0 0.9 4.7 6.2