Good memory tip: to remember dead space, think "dead people don't have any blood flow"--> lung areas that are NOT perfused
In this case, the lung region is well perfused. So the answer must be shunt.
bnb video - ventilation and perfussion.
underventilated but well perfused = aspiration, mucus plug, atelectasis.
this causes physiologic shunting.
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If you got all tangled up on this question like me:
anatomic dead space= conducting airways
Alveolar dead space= alveoli that are ventilated but not perfused (wiki)
physiologic dead space=anatomic dead space+ alveolar dead space
Po2: just no