RESPIRATORY Flashcards
The volume inspired or expired with each normal breath
Tidal volume (Vt)
Volume that can be inspired over and above the tidal volume
used during exercise
Inspiratory reserve volume (IRV)
The volume that can be expired after the expiration of a tidal volume
Expiratory reserve volume
The vlume that remains in the lungs after a maximal expiration
cannot be measured by spirometry
Residual volume
2 types of dead space
Anatomic
Physiologic
The volue of the conducting pathways
Anatomic pathway (approximately 150 mL)
functional measurement
defined as the volume of the lungs that does not participate in gas exhange,
approximately equal to the anatomic dead space in normal lungs.
Physiologice dead space
- may be greater than the anatomic dead space in lung diseases in twhich there are V/Q defects
Physiologic dead space can be calcutated by this equation
Lung volumes and capacity
Minute ventilation is expressed as _______
Minute ventilation = Vt x RR
Alveolar Ventilation (VA) is expressed as ________
VA = (VT - VD) x RR
The sum of tidal volume and IRV
Inspiratory capacity
Sum of ERV and RV
the volume remaining in the lungs after a tidal volume is expired
Includes RV, cannot be measured by spirometry
Functional residual capacity (FRC)
Sum of tidal volume, IRV, ERV
the volume of air that can be forcibly expired after a maximal inspiration
Vital capacity, or forced vital capacity
Sum of all four lung volumes.
The volume in the lungs after a maximal inspiration
includes RV, so it cannot be measured by spirometry
Total lung capacity
the volume of air that can be expired in the first second of a forced maximal expiration
Forced expiratory volume (FEV1)
normally 8% if the forced vital capcacity
(FEV1 / FVC) = 0.8
in obstructive disease, such as asthma and COPD, FEV1 and FVC are ______
Reduced
- FEV1 is reduced more than FVC
- FEV1/FVC = decreased
In restrictive lung disease, such as fibrois, both FEV1 and FVC are _______
Reduced
- FVC is reduced more
- FEV1/FVC = increased
The most imporatnt muscle of inspiration
Diaphragm
- when the diaphragm contracts, the abdominal contents are pushed downward, and the ribs are lifted upward and outward, increasing the volume of the thoracic cavity
Not used for inspiration during normal quiet brething
used during exercise and in respiratory distress
External intercosatal and accessory muscles
Expiration is (active or passive)
Passive
Push the diaphragm up and push air out of the lungs
Abdominal muscles
Pull the ribs downward and inward
Internal intercostal muscles
Analogous to capacitance in the CVS
Distensibility of the lungs and chest walls
Compliance
Compliance is ______ related to elastance
Inversely
Compliance of the lungs
- Transmural pressure is alveolar pressure minus intrapleural pressure
- Whenthe pressure outside the lungs is negattive, lung lungs EXPAND and lung volume INCREASES
- In the middle range of pressures,
- Compliance is GREATEST and the lungs are most distensible
- At high expanding pressures
- Compliance is lowest, the lungs are least distensible and the curve Flattens
Inflation of the lungs follows a different curve than deflation of the lungs (expiration); this difference is called ___________
hysteresis
- due to the need to overcome surface tenson forces when inflating
Compliance of the combined lung-chest wall system
- Compliance of the lung chest wall system is less than of the lungs alone or the chest wall along (slope is flatter)
- At rest, Lung volume is at FRC and the pressure in the airways and lungs is qual to atmospheric pressure (0)
- collapsing force of the lungs
- expanding force of the chest wall
- interpleural pressure is NEGATIVE
In a patient with emphysema, lung compliance is _____________
Increased
- higher FRc
- patient’s chest becomes barrel shaped
In a patient with fibrosis, lung compliance is _______
Decreased
- lower FRC
Results from the attractive forces between liquid molecules lining the alveoli at the air liquid interface
Surface tension
Cretaes a collapsing pressure that is directly proportional to surface tension and iversely proportional to alveolar radius
Laplace’s Law
Large alveoli have ______ collapsing pressures and are easy to open
low
Small alveoli have ______ collapsing pressure
high
- In the absence of surfactant, the small alveoli have a tendency to collapse (atelectasis)
Reduces surface tension by disrupting the intermolecular forces between liquid molecules.
Increases co,piance
Surfactant
Surfactants are synthesized by
Type II alveolar cells
Surfactants are primarily cosnsists of the phospholipid
dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC)
In the fetus, surfactant synthesis is variable. Surfactant may be present as early as week ______ and is almost always present by gestation week ______
24
35
LEcithin: sphingomyelin ration greater than _____________ in amniotic fluid reflects mature levels of surfatant
2:1
driven by and is directly proporional to the pressure difference between the mouth(or nose) and the alveoli
Airflow
- Inversely proportional to airway resistance.
Resistance of the airways is described by ____________
Poiseuille’s law
- Notice the powerful inverse fourth power relationship between resistance and the size (radius) of the airway
Mahor site of airway resistance is the ________-
Medium sized bronchi
- Why not the smallest airways?
- Parallel arrangemetn
Factors that change airway resistance
- Contraction or relaxation of bronchial smooth muscles
- Lung volume
- Viscosity or density of inpired gas
________________stimulation, irritants, and the slow reacting substancce of anaphylaxis (asthma) constrict th airways, decrease the radius and inrease the resistance to airflow
Parasympathetic stmulation
_________-__stimualtion dilate the airways via B2 receptors, increases the radius and decrease the resistance to airflow
Sympathetic
________associated with greater traction on airways and decreased airway resistance.
high lung volumes
- patients with increased airway resistance learn to breathe at higher lung volumes to offset the high airway resistance associated with their disease
_____________ are associated with less traction and increased airway resitance, even to the point of airway collapse
Low lung volumes
During a deep-sea dive, both air density and resistane to airflow are ___________
increased
breathing a low density gas, such as helium __________ the resistance to airflow
reduces
Breathing cycle`
- At rest
- Alveolar pressure = atmospheric pressure
- Interpleural pressure is negative
- pressure can be measured in the esophagus
- Lung volume is FRC
- During inspiration
- Inspiratory muscles contract and cause the volume of the thorax to increase
- Lung volume increase, alveolar pressure decrease
- the pressure gradient causes air to flow
- Intrapleural pressure becomes more negative
- Lung volume increase by one Vt
- peak of inspiration
- Inspiratory muscles contract and cause the volume of the thorax to increase
- Expiration
- Alveolar pressure becomes greater than atmospheric pressure
- Intrapleural pressure returns to its resting value
- lung volumes returns to FRC
During forced expiration, intrapleural pressure actually becomes _____________
Positive
Obstructive disease in which expiration is impaired
Characterized by decreased FVC, decreased FEV1
Air trapping and increased FRC
Asthma
- decreased FEV1/FVC ratio
Combiantion of chronic bronchitis and emphysema
Obstrucive disese with increased lung compliance in which expiration is impaired
Decreased FVC and FEV1
Barrel shaped chest
Increased FRC
COPD
- Decreased FEV1/FVC ratio`
mild hypoxemia
normocapnia
Pink puffers
Primarily emphysema
Severe hypoxemia with xyanosis
hypercapnia
Blue bloaters
Restrictive disease with decreased lung compliance
decreased in all lung volumes
FEV1/FVC is increased or may be mormal
Fibrosis
Dalton’s law of partial pressures
as exchange
Partial pressure = Total Pressure x fractional gas concentraion
- In dry inspired air, partial pressure of O2 can be calculated
- TP and Fractional O2 is 0.21
- PO2 = 760 mmHg x 0.21
- 160 mmHg
- Humidified tracheal air at 37 degrees, the calculation is odiefied to correct fot the partial pressure of H2O which is 47 mmHg
- 760 -47 mmHg = 713
- 713 x 0.21
- 150 mmHg