Respiratory

What is the difference between functional residual capacity and residual volume?

What is the value for vital capacity?

What is the value for functional residual capacity?

What is the normal value for expiratory reserve volume?

What is the value for inspiratory capacity?

What does alveolar ventilation rate tell us?

How can compliance be measured graphically?

What measurements cannot be taken using a spirometer?

What is the normal value for tidal volume?

What is the value for vital capacity?

What is the value for residual volume?

What is the normal value for inspiratory reserve volume?

What is the value for total lung capacity ?

What is happening if the VA:Q ratio is 0?

Give two functions of the pulmonary circulation.

If a VA:Q ration is ∞, where is this?

How are pulmonary arterial walls different from other arterial walls?

What are the responses that help maintain low pressure that dont require any muscle/nervous input?

What is the equation for vascular resistance?

How is vascular resistance affected when the lungs are fully inflated?

Name two things that can result from pulmonary hypertension?

What is the pressure difference between the top and bottom of the lungs?

What does hypoxia mean?

What occurs in response to hypoxia?

What does hypercapnia mean?

What occurs in response to hypercapnia?

How is RAW (airway resistance) affected by change in lung volume?

What is radial traction?

Where does dynamic compression occur?

Name two things that cause bronchioconstriction.

Name two things that cause bronchiodilation.

Name two things that can increase RAW (airway resistance)?

What is the mean arterial pressure in the pulmonary circulation?

Why is the diaphragm the most important muscle for respiration?

What happens to intrapleural pressure when the volume of the thorax increases?

By what method can we estimate the anatomical dead space?

By what method can we measure the physiological dead space?

Why is the work of inspiration greater than the work of expiration?

Why is energy required for expiration so much less?

In a healthy person, what is the volume of air in the anatomical 'dead space'?

What effects can diseases which increase the physiological dead space (e.g. damages to the chest wall and paralysis of respiratory muscles have on ventilation rate?

What is meant by the term hyperventilation?

What conditions or under what cirumstances can hyperventilation occur?

What is meant by the term 'physiological dead space'?

What is meant by the term 'dead space'?

What do we mean by air conditioning?

What is the average breathing rate?

What is alveolar ventilation rate?

What is the normal value for tidal volume?

What is the conducting zone primarily made up of?

What structures of the bronchial tree are found in the transitional and conducting zones?

What is the normal value of O₂ in arterial blood?

What is the normal value for CO₂ in arterial blood?

What is the definition of hypoventilation?

What is used to reduce surface tension in the liquid lining of the alveoli?

What is meant by the term compliance?

What is the equation for compliance?

When is compliance reduced?