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Is inspiration passive or active?

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  • Active always
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Is Expiration Passive or Active?

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  • Passive during rest
  • Active during exercise
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What is the most important muscle for inspiration? What is it innervated by?

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Muscle
- Diaphragm
Innervation
- Phrenic Nerves that originate from cervical segments 3,4,5

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What plays a key role in active expiration?

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  • contraction of the abdominal muscles
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What are the Primary Muscles of Inspiration? What are they innervated by?

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  • Diaphragm: Phrenic, C3-C5
  • Scalenes: C2-C7
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What are the Accessory Muscles of Inspiration and Muscles of Expiration? What are they innervated by?

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  • Sternomastoid: Accessory Nerve & C2-C3
  • Intercostal: T1-T11
  • Abdominal Muscles (especially Transversus Abdominus): T7-L1
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What is the shape of the Pressure-Volume curve of the lung? why is it that shape?

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  • Linear: because the lung gets stiffer at higher volumes
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What is Hysteresis?

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the amount of energy/work needed to surpass the airways resistance during inspiration, and expiration.

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What is Compliance of the lung?

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The slope of Change in Volume/ Change in Pressure

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What is responsible for the compliance behaviour of the lung?

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  • Structural proteins: Collagen and Elastin
  • Surface Tension
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What can cause a reduction in compliance?

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  • Pulmonary Fibrosis
  • Alveolar Edema
  • Increased Venous Pressure
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What causes an increase in Compliance?

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  • Emphysema
  • Normal Aging
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What balances the tendency of the lung to recoil to its deflated volume?

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  • The tendency of the chest cage to bow out
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What is a similarity about the lungs and the thoracic cage?

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  • they are both elastic
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What is the intra-pleural pressure compared to atomospheric pressure? Why?

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Sub-atmoshperic: Because the tendency of the lung to recoil to its deflated volume is balanced by the tendency of the chest cage to bow out

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What determines the Pressure-Volume Curve?

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  • Elastic properties of both the lung and chest wall determine the combined volume
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What happens at FRC? (functional reserve capacity)

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  • The inward pull of the lung is balanced by the outward spring of the chest wall
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At what volumes does the Lung retract?

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  • All volumes above minimal volume
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At what volumes does the chest wall expand?

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  • Volumes up to 75% of vital capacity
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What does Pulmonary Surfactant do?

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  • Reduces the surface tension of the alveolar lining layer
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What is Pulmonary Surfactant Produced by?

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  • Type II alveolar Epithelial cells
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What does Pulmonary Surfactant Contain?

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What results from the absence of Pulmonary Surfactant?

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  • Reduced Lung compliance
  • Alveolar Atelectasis (complete or partial collapse)
  • Pulmonary Edema
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What are some regional differences in lung Ventilation?

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  • Weight of the upright lung causes a higher (less negative) intrapleural pressure around the base compared with apex
  • Because pressure-volume curve is non-linear, alveoli at the base expand more than do those at the apex
  • If a small inspiration is made from residual volume (RV), the extreme base of the lung is unventilated
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What is Laminar Flow Governed by?
Poiseuille's Law: V. = P(pi)r^4 / (8nl) or R = 8nl / (pi)r^4 R (resistance) n (viscosity) l (length) r (radius) P (driving pressure)
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What happens if the radius is halved for laminar flow?
Resistance is Increase 16-fold. r^4.
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What is Reynolds Number?
Re = 2rvd/n d (density) v (average velocity) r (radius) n (viscosity)
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What is resistance inversely proportional to in Laminar Flow?
- the fourth power of the radius
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What does the velocity profile show for laminar flow?
A central spike of fast gas
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When is turbulent flow most likely to occur?
- At a high Reynolds number: when inertial forces dominate over viscous forces
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Where is airway resistance the highest?
- Medium-sized Bronchi
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Where is Airway Resistance Low?
- Very small airways
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What happens to airway resistance when lung volume increases?
It decrease: because airways are pulled open
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What is the Bronchial smooth muscle controlled by?
- Autonomic Nervous system
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What causes Bronchodilation?
- Stimulation of the B2-Adrenergic Receptors
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What happens when you breath in a dense gas?
- Increase in airway resistance
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When is flow effort independent? Why?
- Low to Mid Volumes: Because the flow rate reaches a plateau and cannot be increased with further increase in intra-pleural pressure
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When is flow effort dependent? Why?
- High Volumes: Because the expiratory flow rate continues to increase with effort (passive at low-mid volume)
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What does Dynamic Compression of the airways do in normal subjects during a forced expiration?
- Limits air flow
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When might dynamic compression occur during low expiratory flow rates? what might be the consequence?
- In a diseased lung: Reduces exercise ability
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What is flow determined by during Dynamic Compression?
- Alveolar pressure minus pleural pressure (not mouth pressure)
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When might Dynamic Compression be exaggerated?
- In some lung diseases, due to reduced lung elastic recoil and a loss of radial traction on airways
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What does an increase in resistance of peripheral airways do? Why?
Exaggerates flow-limiting mechanisms: - magnifies the pressure drop - decreases the intrabronchial pressure during expiration
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What does low lung volumes do?
Exaggerates flow-limiting mechanisms: because it reduces the driving pressure (alveolar-intrapleural)
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What can emphysema do to flow?
Reduces Flow by: - Reduces Recoil Pressure: reduces driving pressure - Reduces Radial Traction on Airways: they compress more readily
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What is the difference between flow limitation in healthy subjects vs subjects with severe obstructive lung disease?
Healthy subject: only seen during forced expiration Lung Disease: seen during normal breathing
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How does a forced expiration test help diagnosis?
- used to evaluate patients with chronic dyspnea - Distinguishes between obstructive and restrictive disease
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Where might you see a lack of surfactant? what can it lead to?
- in premature infants: leads to low compliance and respiratory failure

KIN 435 (14 decks)

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