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What's the relation between heart rate and respiratory rate? is there any formula to calculate one given the other?
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AWESOME question: This is a great question. The physiology is crazy complex, and unfortunately the answer is that hr and rr are *not* linked. Hr is driven by o2 demand, and rr is driven (in a normal non-diseased person) by co2 level in the blood. However, you're sidling up to something called the fick equation that shows that heart rate changes to match oxygen demand, which usually means higher resp rate.
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