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. 2017 Sep 29;4:162. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2017.00162

Table 1.

Modeling of denitrogenation.

Breath New horse O2%—FeO2 New system O2%—FiO2
1 39.23 86.98
2 50.25 79.73
3 57.05 75.83
4 61.39 73.89
5 64.27 73.07
6 66.30 72.90
7 67.83 73.11
8 69.04 73.52
9 70.08 74.04
10 70.99 74.62
11 71.83 75.23
12 72.61 75.85
13 73.36 76.47
14 74.08 77.08
15 74.77 77.67
16 75.44 78.26
17 76.09 78.83
18 76.72 79.39
19 77.34 79.93
20 77.93 80.46

The denitrogenation phase assumes a machine prefilled with 100% oxygen, a machine’s volume of 28 L and horse FRC of 20 L. Calculations predicted that with an oxygen flow at 8 L min−1 the FeO2 reached 67% after six breaths.