Components of vital capacity
Vital Capacity = IRV + TV + ERV
Vital capacity falls in restrictive disease and neuromuscular weakness.
Residual volume is excluded, so it cannot give FRC or TLC.
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Vital Capacity = IRV + TV + ERV. It helps you recall: Components of vital capacity.
Inspiratory reserve volume
Tidal volume
Expiratory reserve volume
IRV: Inspiratory reserve volume; TV: Tidal volume; ERV: Expiratory reserve volume.
It belongs to Respiratory system in Physiology.
Residual volume is excluded, so it cannot give FRC or TLC.
Vital capacity falls in restrictive disease and neuromuscular weakness.
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