Airway/Respiratory Flashcards
Explain the nerve pathway of laryngospasm
- Afferent SENSORY stimulation of INTERNAL branch of Superior laryngeal nerve
- Efferent MOTOR innervation via EXTERNAL branch of SLN + Recurrent laryngeal nerve
the upper airway extends from 1 to 2 .
- Mouth and Nares
- Cricoid Cartilage
What increases as the airways bifurcates?
What decreases?
Increases:
- number of airways
- cross sectional area
- muscular areas
Decreases:
- airflow velocity
- amount of cartilage
- goblet cells (which produce mucous)
- cilliated cells(Clears Mucous)
Explain minute ventilation compared to alveolar ventilation
Minute Venilation = TV x RR
- Volume of air moved in a single minute
Alveolar Ventilation = ((TV - Anatomical Deadspace) x (RR)
- Alveolar ventilation does NOT factor in the conducting airways.
- Alveoloar ventilation measure fraction of minute ventilation availible for gas exchange
(Note: TV = volume of gas in conduction airways + volume of gas in the respiratory zone)
Definition of deadspace
gas that does not participate in gas exchange.
Normal deadspace in spontaneously ventilating patient
2 ml/kg
About 33%
(Vd/Vt) = 150mL/450 = 0.33
Bohr Equation
Uses CO<strong>2</strong> calculate physiologic deadspace
- partial pressure of CO2 in blood compared to EtCO2
- the greater difference between = the MORE deadspace
Vd = PaCo2 - PeCO2
Vt PaCO2
Explain V/Q in an upright spontaneously ventilating patient
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Normal V/Q = 0.8
- ventilation = 4 L/min
- Perfusion = CO = 5 L/min
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Higher V/Q ratios at apex
- more ventilation and less perfusion = deadspace
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Lower V/Q ratios at base
- more perfusion and less ventilation = shunt
What is the bodies compensatory mechanism to V/Q mismatch causing shunt?
Hypoxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction → decreases pulmonary blood flow to alveoli with LESS ventilation which minimizes shunt
What is the bodies compensatory mechanism to V/Q mismatch causing deadspace?
Bronchioles constrict
Laplace’s law
Tension = (Pressure x Radius) / (Wall thickness)
As radius increases wall tension increases.
What type of cells produce surfactant and when?
- Surfactant produce by Type II Pneumocytes
- Starts between 22-26 weeks of age
- Peak production is at 36-35 weeks
3 Sites of anatomical shunt
- Thebesian veins → drain left heart
- Bronchiolar veins →drain bronchial circulation
- Pleaural veins → drain bronchial circulation
How can we approximate alveolar oxygen from an arterial blood gas? Why is this important ?
Alveolar Oxygen Equation
Alveolar oxygen = FiO2 X (Pb - PH2O) - PaCO2
RQ
- We can treat hypoxia by increasing FiO2, However, we cannot correct hypercarbia by increasing FiO2.
- The only way to treat the hypercarbia is to increase alveolar ventilation (i.e minute ventilation) - Blow off CO2
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Alveolar oxygen = Fraction of inspired oxygen TIMES (barometric pressure MINUS pressure of humidity of inhaled gas (assume 47mmHg) MINUS Arterial CO2 divided by the respiratory quotient (0.8)
What conditions have/cause an INCREASED FRC?
- Advanced age→ decreased elastic lung tissue/air trapping which increases residual volume
- Sitting & Prone Position→ changes in position of the diaphram and changes in pulmonary blood flow
- Obstructive Lung disease→ air trapping which increases residual volume
- PEEP→ recruits colapsed alveoli, partially overcomes effects of GA, decreased venous admixture = increased PaO2
- Sigh Breaths→ recruits colapsed alveoli
What is closing capacity?
- ERV = closing volume = point at which dynamic compression of the airway begins (just above residual volume)
- where the pleural pressure exceeds airway pressure compressing the small airways (without cartilage) and traps cas distally in the alveoli
- CLOSING CAPACITY = closing volume + RV
Under normal circumstances FRC is _______ than CC.
Under normal circumstances FRC is GREATER than CC.
What happens when CC is greater than FRC?
How do we remedy this?
Airway closure occurs during normal tidal breathing
Remedy → need to increase FRC = ADD PEEP
What conditions increase closing volume
CLOSE -P
- C = COPD
- L = LV failure
- O = Obesity
- S = Smoking
- E = Extreme age
- P = Pregnancy
(Small airways begin to close at higher lung volumes increaseing intrapulmonary shunt and hypoxemia)
Lung volumes associated with agiing
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INCREASED
- FRC
- Closing Capacity
- Residual Volume
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DECREASED
- Vital Capacity
Spirometry cannot measure
Anything that includes residual volume
- Total lung Capacity (TLC)
- Functional Residual Capacity (FRC)
- Closing Volume and Closing Capacity
(Use Nitorgen Washout or Xenon 133)
Arterial Oxygen content equation
CaO2 = (1.39 x Hgb x SaO2) + (PaO2 x 0.003)
- ≈ 3% dissolves in plasma
- 97% reversibly binds with Hemoglobin
Gas Law that explains the amount of oxygen dissolved in plasma
Henry’s Law
(the partial pressure of gas in a solution is directly related to the partial pressure of the gas above the solution)
Oxygen is _____________ soluable than CO2
(O2 solubility coef. = ______)
(CO2 solubility coef. = ______)
Oxygen is 20x LESS soluable than CO2
( O2 solubility coef. = 0.003)
(CO2 solubility coef. = 0.067)
Where does 1.39 come from in the arterial oxygen content equation
Each gram of hemoglobin can carry 1.39 mL’s of oxygen
Oxygen Delivery Equation
DO2 = (CaO2) X (Cardiac Output) X (10)
CaO2 = Areerial oxygen content (g/dL)
Cardiac Output = L/Min
10 = conversion factor
Oxygen Consumption Equation
VO2 = CO x (CaO2 - CvO2)
In an aberage 70 kg male what is the oxygen consumtion?
Oxygen Consumption (VO2) = 3.5 mL/kg/min
So in a 70kg male VO2 ≈ 250 mL/min
P50 of adult and fetal Hgb
- Adult Hgb P50 = 26.5 mmHg
- Fetal Hgb P50 = 19mmHg
- does NOT produce 2,3 DPG which shift the curve to the right!!!!
What describes the primary mechanisms of gas exchange at the level of the tissues and lungs?
The Bohr effect and Haldane effect work together to deliver oxygen remeove CO2 . Both have significance at the level of the tissues and lungs.
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Bohr Effect → describes carriage of oxygen to tissues
- CO2 + H+ casue Hgb to offload OXYGEN to the tissues.
- Presence of CO2 + H+ cause a conformational change in the Hgb molocule
- Explains RIGHT shift from acidosis + increased metabolism )
Haldane Effect → describes CO2 carriage from tissues to the lungs
- Oxygen causes erythrocytes to release CO2
- Deoxygenated Hgb is able to carry more CO2 →when brougt to the lungs CO2 is then offloaded d/t the presence of oxygen and thus excreted form the body
What are the three mechanisms of CO2 transport?
- Transproted in the form of HCO3 →(70%)
- Bound to Hgb →(23%)
- Dissolved in plasma →(7%)
Venous Hematocrit vs Arterial Hematocrit
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Venous Hematocrit is 3% HIGHER than Arterial dt/t chloride (hamburger) shift.
- Cl- adds osmotically active ions (Cl- follows Na+) which causes erythrocyte to swell.
- This Swelling is reversed in the lungs