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16 September 2020 An Improved Physical Lung Model for Teaching Lung Ventilation
Kwok-Chi Lau
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This article describes an easily made physical lung model for teaching about lung ventilation. It has rectified some major shortcomings of the bell-jar balloon model by having a fluid-filled “pleural cavity,” a dome-shaped “diaphragm,” and an inflated “lung” at rest. The model can be used to tackle some misconceptions about ventilation as well as to learn some difficult concepts such as the negative pleural pressure and pneumothorax.

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Kwok-Chi Lau "An Improved Physical Lung Model for Teaching Lung Ventilation," The American Biology Teacher 82(6), 413-415, (16 September 2020). https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2020.82.6.413
Published: 16 September 2020
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Lungs
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ventilation
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