Respiratory Flashcards
Pulmonary disease is almost entirely
Environmental rather than genetic
major roles of the respiratory system are
Respiration and the exchange of gas
Depends on compliance of lungs and alveoli that are ventilated and perfused
What is the effect of ventilation perfusion defects
Alveoli not perfused = ventilatory “dead space”
Alveoli not ventilated= shunting non oxygenated blood to systemic circulation causing cyanosis
Mechanism of cyanosis:
Part that has enough vasculature but not enough oxygen
Alveoli are perfused bu not ventilated
Tco indicates
Gas exchange
vital capacity
Total volume of expired air after a maximum inspiration
FEV1
Volume of air forcefully expired in 1 seconds
What can cause respiratory failure
Ventilation (air in/out of alveoli) ,perfusion (circulatory), or gas exchange defects (interface between ventilation & perfusion)
What can cause airway diseases? Effect?
Atop your, smoking, infection, abnormal lung defense
Obstruction to airflow with consequence of corpulmonale
In airways diseases there’s ___ oxygen and ___ CO2 causing
Decreased oxygen
Increased CO2
Leads to pulmonary hypertension leading to cor pulmonale
Obstructive and restrictive lung disease both has decreased
FEV1
TCO is decreased in
Restrictive lung disease
Hyper reactivity of airways that causes bronco constriction
Asthma
Reversible because it is a functional status of the bronchi
Asthma can be triggered by
Intrinsic (cold, exercise, aspirin) or extrinsic (inhaled antigen)
Muscle spasm of bronchi
Mucosal inflammation
Asthma
Alpha 1 antitripin
Deficiency or inactivation by smoking causes COPD
Blue bloaters
Bronchitis Infection is common Cor pulmonale Increased airway resistance Fibrosis in late stages
Chronic bronchitis is not reversible because
Hard to undo fibrosis
Lost of elastic recoil of lungs, increase in size of the airspace in distal bronchiole
Emphysema
Dilation is due to loss of alveolar walls (holes)
Barrel chest in late phase of this disease
Emphysema
Which COPD has fibrosis
Chronic Bronchitis
Pink puffers
Emphysema
Low elastic recoil