The simulator
SimulResp is a model of cardio-respiratory physiology based on CJ Dickinson’s model (8). The CJ Dickinson’s model (8) is a respiratory model based on three compartments : the capillary compartment where gas exchange takes place, the dead-space and the left-to-right shunt. SimulResp and the CJ Dickinson’s model (8) were both previously presented with more details (2,4) and we provide more details on the model’s algorithm as supplemental file (supplemental file 1). The initial model implementation in FORTRAN was translated to C++ and a visual interface was added. Simulresp uses a dynamic link library to perform different tasks in harmony.