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

Table 4.

Modeling of denitrogenation.

Breath New horse O2%—FeO2 New system O2%—FiO2
1 43.57 87.91
2 56.24 81.70
3 63.51 78.67
4 67.84 77.37
5 70.57 76.99
6 72.40 77.10
7 73.74 77.47
8 74.81 77.97
9 75.71 78.54
10 76.52 79.13
11 77.27 79.72
12 77.97 80.31
13 78.64 80.89
14 79.28 81.46
15 79.90 82.01
16 80.50 82.54
17 81.09 83.06
18 81.65 83.56
19 82.20 84.05
20 82.73 84.53

The denitrogenation phase values shows the situation with a machine prefilled with 100% oxygen, a machine’s volume of 28 L and horse’s FRC of 15 L. Calculations predicted that with an oxygen flow at 8 L min−1 the FeO2 would reach 67% after four breaths.