Resp 1 Flashcards
How many lobes in the R lung
3
How many lobes in the Lung
2
Is there gas exchange in the conducting airways?
No
Aspiration Pneumonia tend to occur more in which lung?
R
What are the gas exchange airways?
Resp bronchioles
Alveolar ducts
Alveoli
What line the bronchi and produce mucous?
Goblet cells
What does the apneustic center do
Prevents over inflation of the lungs
What does the pneumotaxic center do
Limits amount of inspired air
The ability of the lungs to expand and return to resting volume at expiration is due to
The elastic properties of the lung and the chest wall
Compliance is the ability
Of the lung and chest wall to stretch
A loss of elastic recoil will increase the _______
Compliance
Makes it abnormally easy to inflate but difficult to return
A decrease in compliance will cause
The lungs to be very still and difficult to inflate
Compliance is in disorders such as
Emphysema
Compliance is decreased in orders such as
Pneumonia
Cystic fibrosis
In pulmonary edema there is _____lung compliance which ____ muscular effort thus ____ work of breathing
Decreased
Increases
Increases