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Flow waveform - is a shape of air flow, a flow pattern that is blowed into the patient airways [1]. Modern lung ventilators are able to generate into breathing circuit three basic waveforms of flow:

  • squared waveform
  • descending waveform
  • sinusoidal waveform

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