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Gas will move form ____ pressure to ____ pressure

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High
Low

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Right before a breath, pressure outside the body and inside the lungs is…

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Equal

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How do you create a pressure gradient

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  • as u inhale, your diaphragm drop as while your rib cage expands
  • this increases the volume in your chest, which lowers the pressure
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Boyes law and what needs to be kept constant for it to apply

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  • the pressure of gas is inversely related to its volume
  • P= 1/V
  • provided temperature and amount of gas molecules are kept constant

(IN A CLOSED CHAMBER the product of PXV MUST STAY THE SAME)

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Creating a pressure gradient in inhalation

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• Lung volume is increasing
• Pressure inside the lungs is
decreasing
• Pressure outside the lung is now
greater than inside, so air rushes in

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Creating a pressure gradient in exhalation

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• Lung volume is decreasing
• Pressure inside the lungs is
increasing
• Pressure outside the lung is now
lower than inside, so air rushes out

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What is the direction of airflow determined by?

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difference between atmospheric pressure and intrapulmonary pressure

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What is intrapulmonary pressure?

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Pressure inside the lungs

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What are the two opposing forces that must be overcome to take a breath

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  1. Stiffness of the lungs
    • Lungs must expand to take in air
    • How compliant are the lungs?
    • Surface tension holds lungs in place
  2. Resistance of the airways to the lungs
    • Need to move the air from outside to the
    alveoli
    • How much resistance is the respiratory tract
    putting on the movement of air?
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What makes lungs stiff/ not stiff

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  • elastic tissue makes it stretchy
  • low compliance means not very stretchy
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What is compliance (lungs)

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Defined as the magnitude of the change in the lung volume (^V) produced by the given change in pressure (^P)

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Compliance equation and graph - lungs

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Vital capacity =

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Lung volume

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15
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Low compliance - ‘stiff lungs’ =

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Need more work to expand

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What is pulmonary fibrosis and was causes it and what happens to compliance?

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  • thickening and scaring of the alveolar membranes
  • can arise from chronic inflammation or exposure to industrial chemicals
  • needs a high pressure to clause a same change in volume
  • shallow rapid breaths
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What is surface tension

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  • tendency of a fluid to occupy the smallest possible surface area
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Fluids surrounding the lungs exerting surface tension on alveoli

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  • Alveoli are lined with fluid that exert surface tension
  • walls of alveoli are very thin, enhancing this effect
  • makes alveoli want to collapse
  • must overcome surface tension to expand the lungs
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What does surfactant do?

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Reduces surface tension in alveoli making them easier to expand

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20
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What is surfactant produced by?

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Alveolar type 2 pneumocystis

21
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What is a major constituent of surfacent ?

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Phospholipids

22
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Function of surfactant in alveoli

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  • lowers surface tension
23
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How does surfactant lower surface tension

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  • reduces attractive forces between fluid molecules lining alveoli
  • easier to increase lung size I.e. increased compliance
24
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Diagram of with and without surfactant

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25
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Lack of surfactant/ failure to produce adequate surfactant —->

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‘Stiff’ lungs
(Compliance is reduced)

26
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Why do premature infants result in respiratory distress syndrome (RDS)

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Premature infants do not produce surfactant

27
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Airway resistance through the respiratory tract

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  • need to ,more air from outside to the alveoli
  • air is conducted through the bronchi and bronchioles
  • exert force (fiction) on the air (through the airways) that must be overcome
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Resistance to airflow and bronchial radius

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29
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Where is the resistance to airflow primarily (yap)

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  • resistance to airflow primary occurs in the first 6 branchings of the respiratory tree
30
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What is the main airway of resistance

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Bronchi

31
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Most of the resistance to airflow arises in the

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Bronchi

32
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Do the small airways contribute to airway resistance? Why?

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Thesmall airways(terminal and respiratory bronchioles) contribute very little to airways resistance
(Due to high crosssectional area)

33
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What does a spirometer measure

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Volume inspired / exhaled

  • how much and how fast you breathe
  • the speed is indicative of resistance of airways
34
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Spirometer is

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The pulmonary function test

35
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Diagram of a spirometer

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36
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Tidal volume

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Restful breathing
- half a litre

37
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Spirometer trace

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38
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At the end of breathing out..

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Will always be some air left
- RESIDUAL VOLUME

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  • top one that is unlabelled in inspiration capacity
40
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Vital capacity

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Inspiratory reserve + Expiratory reserve + Tidal volume Volume of air that can be moved in and out of your lungs

41
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Total lung capacity

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Vital capacity + Residual volume
Total volume in lungs when it is filled to max

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Inspiratory capacity

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Inspiratory reserve + Tidal volume
Total volume of air that can be inspired from rest

43
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Functional residual capacity

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Expiratory reserve + Residual volume
Volume remaining in lungs after normal exhalation

44
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How to to determine airway resistance

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Forced exiratory volume in one second (FEV)
- ie how much of the forced vital capacity (FVC) comes out in the first second
- reduced with diseases causing resistance to airflow (e.g asthma)

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FEV/FVC ratio

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  • normal ~ 80%
  • less then 0.7 indicates airways obstruction = increased airway resistance
46
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FEV and FVC on graph - forced expiration measurement from a spirometer

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47
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What can discern the difference between obstructive and restirctive issues?

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Spirometry

48
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features if RESTRICTIVE issues

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Reduced lung capacity:
- reduced lung compliance (e.g fibrosis)
- insufficient surfactant release

49
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Features if OBSTRUCTIVE issues

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Resistance to airflow:
- asthma
- chronic bronchitis
- emphysema

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