We know that chest wall strapping (wrapping the chest and stomach to prevent expansion during breathing) reduces FVC, tidal volume and minute ventilation. I am looking for any studies done on brain oxygen levels during chest wall strapping.
Please define the question a bit more precisely, may be something will come to my mind.
Please specify: chest or abdominal strapping or both? I was doing some strapping in the 80s to determine thorax/diaphragm contribution to the tidal volume. Look for some old experiments in Macklem/Roussos "The Thorax" or old "Handbook of Physiology" (http://www.comprehensivephysiology.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-420616.html )
Also "brain oxygen levels": What kind of method, which measurements you have in mind? Why brain oxygen levels? Why not simple blood gasses?
Thank you for your reply. I was looking for any studies that measured brain oxygen before and after CWS (chest, abdominal or both). I was hoping to find studies that used brain scans to measure brain oxygen, but blood gas levels would be fine.
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