Editorial on Cardiopulmonary Interactions


Heart-lung interactions, a long story with many pioneers

Didier Payen

Abstract

“Learning is either a continuing thing or it is nothing”
Respiration and circulation are two convective systems that meet together in the thorax. Both act synergistically to ensure the blood oxygenation, the elimination of CO2, and the blood transport from the periphery to the heart and from the heart to the periphery.

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