Alfred I DuPont Hospital for Children
Jigar C. Chauhan, MBBS MD is a pediatric intensivist at Nemours Children's Hospital in Delaware. He joined critical care medicine due to his interest in physiology, and it continues to be important part of his research interest. Respiratory illness and respiratory physiology in critically ill children remains his specific areas of research interest. He has done earlier work focused on describing relationship between End tidal CO2 and Qp/Qs, he has named the ratio of end tidal CO2 to PaCO2 as "Alveolar functional fraction". Now he has worked on a derived variable named "functional Cardiac Output (fCO)" based on the "Alveolar function fraction" and Minute ventilation "MV" which he will be describing today.