Respiratory - Airway Physiology Flashcards
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What is the conducting zone of the lungs?
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anatomical dead space and does not participate in gas exchange
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What is the respiratory zone of the lung?
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where gas exchange takes place
3
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Gas exchange can only occur in what type of tissue?
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flat epithelium
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What is the transitional zone of the lungs?
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both an air conduit and allows some gas exchange
5
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What anatomical structures make up the transitional zone of the lungs?
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respiratory bronchioles and alveolar ducts
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In order for gas exchange to occur, does pressure need to be greater inside or outside the lung?
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pressure inside the airway needs to be greater than pressure outside the airway
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What is pressure inside the lungs minus pressure outside the lungs called?
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transpulmonary pressure TPP
8
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What is pressure inside the lungs called?
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alveolar pressure
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What is pressure outside the lungs called?
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intrapleural pressure
10
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What is formula for TPP?
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TPP = alveolar pressure - intrapleural pressure
11
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What pressure is always positive to keep the lungs open?
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TPP
12
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What pressure is ways negative to keep the lungs inflated?
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intrapleural
13
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What instances causes intrapleural pressure to become positive? (2)
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pneumo, forced expiration
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When does alveolar pressure become positive? negative?
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positive during expiration, negative during inspiration
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During what phases of the respiratory cycle is there no airflow? (2)
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FRC and end-expiration
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What does contraction of inspiratory muscles do to thoracic pressure and thoracic volume?
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decreases thoracic pressure, increases thoracic volume
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What law explains the decrease in thoracic pressure, and increase in thoracic volume during inspiration?
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Boyles
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Contraction of what muscles are primarily responsible for inspiration? (2)
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diaphragm and external intercostals
19
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What are the accessory muscles of inspiration?
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sternocleidomastoid ad scalene muscles
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Is exhalation passive or active? How?
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passive, recoil of chest wall
21
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What muscles are responsible for forced exhalation? (TIREs)
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transverse abdominus, internal oblique, rectus abdominis, external oblique
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What muscles play a secondary role in active exhalation?
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internal intercostals
23
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What causes exhalation to become active?
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increase in minute ventilation, lung disease, cough/clear secretions
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What vital capacity is required to produce an effective cough?
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15mL/kg
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What is the process of exchanging gas between the atmosphere and the lungs, Oxygenation or ventilation?
ventilation
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What are the two primary functions of ventilation?
acquire O2, remove CO2
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Does the entire tidal volume participate in gas exchange? Why?
No, dead space.
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What is the volume of dead space?
2mL/kg
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What does increased dead space do to the PaCO2 - EtCO2 gradient?
widens the gradient and causes CO2 retention
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What is the consequence of increased dead space?
more difficult to eliminate expired gas from the lungs
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Where is anatomic dead space?
conducting airways (nose/mouth to terminal bronchioles)
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What is physiologic dead space?
anatomic dead space and alveolar dead space
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Do alveoli participate in dead space? How?
Yes, alveoli that are ventilated but not perfused
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What is the formula for minute ventilation (VE)?
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VE = tidal volume x respiratory rate
VE = 500 x 10 = 5000mL/min
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What is the fraction of VE that is available for gas exchange?
alveolar ventilation (VA)
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What is the formula for VA?
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VA = (Vt - Vd) x RR
VA = (tidal volume - dead space) x respiratory rate
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VA is directly proportional to what?
CO2 production
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VA is indirectly proportional to what?
PaCO2
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What is the Vd/Vt ratio?
fraction of tidal volume that contributes to dead space
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Calculate the Vd/Vt for a 70kg patient spontaneously breathing a Vt of 0.45L
150mL / 450mL = 0.33
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What affect does mechanical ventilation have on Vd/Vt ratio (increase or decrease)?
increase
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Why does mechanical ventilation increase Vd/Vt ratio to 0.55?
increase alveolar pressure -> increases ventilation relative to perfusion
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What is the most common cause of altered Vd under general anesthesia?
decreased cardiac output
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How does a LMA affect dead space?
decreases Vd.
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How does Atropine affect dead space?
Increases
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How does atropine increase dead space?
bronchodilation increases the volume of the conducting airways
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The table is being turned 180 during a craniotomy. You add extension tubing to your circle system. How is dead space affected? Why?
It isn't! Anything proximal to the y piece does not affect dead space.
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How can the circle system increase dead space?
faulty one way valve. The entire limb becomes dead space.
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What equation is used to calculate physiologic dead space?
Bohr
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What equation compares the partial pressure of CO2 in the blood vs partial pressure of CO2 in exhaled gas?
Bohr
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What is the formula for the Bohr equation?
Vd/Vt = (PaCO2 - PeCO2) / PaCO2
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What airway devices increase dead space? (3)
facemask, HME, PPV
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What airway devices decrease dead space? (3)
ETT, LMA, trach
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What drugs cause a decrease in dead space?
anticholinergics due to bronchodilation (atropine)
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How does age affect dead space?
old age increases dead space
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What does neck flexion and extension do to dead space?
extension increases
| flexion decreases
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What are the pathophysiologic causes of increased dead space?
decreased CO, decreased pulm. blood flow, COPD, PE (air, thrombus, amniotic fluid, bone)
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What patient positions decrease dead space? Increase?
decrease - supine, head down
| increase - sitting
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What is the normal V/Q ratio?
0.8 (ventilation 4L/min, Perfusion 5L/min)
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What two mechanisms affect distribution of blood flow to the lungs?
gravity and hydrostatic pressure
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How are V/Q ratios affected by the upright position?
Higher V/Q ratio in the apex, Lower V/Q in the base of the lungs
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In which portion of the lung are alveoli best and least ventilated?
best base, least apex
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In which portion of the lung is perfusion the greatest?
base due to gravity
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How is compliance calculated?
compliance = change in volume / change in pressure
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Describe alveolar ventilation in non-dependent and dependent regions of the lung.
Non-dependent: low
| Dependent: high
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Describe perfusion in non-dependent and dependent regions of the lung.
Non-dependent: low
| Dependent: high
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Describe V/Q in non-dependent and dependent regions of the lung.
Non-dependent: high
| Dependent: low
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Describe PAO2 in non-dependent and dependent regions of the lung.
Non-dependent: high
| Dependent: low
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Describe PACO2 in non-dependent and dependent regions of the lung.
Non-dependent: low
| Dependent: high
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Describe PAN2 in non-dependent and dependent regions of the lung.
Non-dependent: same
| Dependent: same
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What does the balance of ventilation and perfusion throughout the lung determine?
PaO2 and PaCO2
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Describe the relationship of V and Q in the most dependent area of the lung?
V < Q
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Describe the relationship of V and Q in the nondependent area of the lung?
V > Q
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What is the most common cause of hypoxemia in the PACU?
Atelectasis (V/Q mismatch)
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How does anesthesia affect FRC?
FRC is smaller -> atelectasis
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What are consequences of a smaller FRC in the PACU?
atelectasis, R-to-L shunt, V/Q mismatch, hypoxemia
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How do you treat V/Q mismatch from atelectasis?
humidified O2, mobility, cough, deep breath, incentive spirometry
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What West Lung Zone does mechanical ventilation increase?
increases zone 1
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How is CO2 and O2 affected by underventilated alveoli?
blood retains CO2 and does not take enough O2
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Does CO2 or O2 diffuse faster?
CO2 diffuses 20x faster
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How is CO2 and O2 affected by overventilated alveoli?
excessive diffusion of CO2, unproportionate uptake of O2
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What is the PAO2-PaO2 gradient with V/Q mismatch?
large
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What is the PACO2-PaCO2 gradient with V/Q mismatch?
small
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How does the body compensate for V/Q mismatch?
bronchioles constrict to minimize dead space (zone 1), hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction reduces blood flow to minimize shunt (zone 3)
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What law describes the relationship between pressure, radius, and wall tension?
Law of Laplace
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How do you calculate tension in a cylinder?
pressure x radius
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How do you calculate tension in a sphere?
(pressure x radius) / 2
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What type of cells produce surfactant? When does it start?
type 2, 22-26 weeks
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What does surfactant do? (2)
reduces alveolar surface tension, prevents alveolar collapse
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What happens to surface tension as alveolar radius changes?
stays constant
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In each individual alveoli, V/Q ratio is determined by relative pressures between what? (4)
alveolus, arterial capillary, venous capillary, interstitial space.
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What zone of the lung is described by: PA > Pa > Pv
zone 1
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What increases zone 1? (4)
HoTN, PE, excessive airway pressure
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Finish the sentence: in west zone 1, there is ___ but no ___.
there is ventilation but no perfusion
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How does the body react to a increase in Zone 1?
bronchioles constrict to reduce dead space
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What zone of the lung is described by: Pa > PA > Pv
zone 2
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What is the V/Q ratio of zone 2?
V/Q = 1
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What zone of the lung is described by: Pa > Pv > PA
zone 3
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In zone 3 of the lung, blood flow is a function of what?
pulmonary arteriovenous pressure difference
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In zone 3 most alveoli are better ___ than ____.
better perfused than ventilated (V < Q)
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What is a shunt?
shunt is blood flow without perfusion
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How does hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction react to a west lung zone 3?
reduces pulmonary blood flow to under-ventilated alveoli
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Why should the PA catheter be placed in west lung zone 3?
pressure in the capillary is always higher than the alveoli, so the vessel is always open
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What is an anatomic shunt?
any venous blood that directly empties into the left heart
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Where are sites of normal anatomic shunt?
thesbian veins, bronchiolar veins, pleural veins
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What zone of the lung is described by: Pa > Pist > Pv > PA
zone 4, pulmonary edema
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What happens to lung pressure in pulmonary edema?
interstitial pressure exceeds pressure in the pulm. capillaries and alveoli d/t accumulation of fluid
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What are the two causes of west zone 4?
increase in capillary hydrostatic pressure and reduction in pleural pressure
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What causes an increase in capillary hydrostatic pressure leading to a west zone 4? (3)
fluid overload, mitral stenosis, pulmonary vasoconstriction
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What causes a reduction in pleural pressure leading to a west zone 4? (2)
laryngospasm or inhalation against a closed glottis
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Supplementing hypoventilation with O2 can lead to undetected ______.
hypercarbia
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What equation determines the partial pressure of oxygen inside alveoli?
alveolar gas equation
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How do you calculate alveolar oxygen?
PAO2 = FiO2 x (Pb - PH2O) - (PaCO2 / RQ)
| = FiO2 x (760mmHg - 47mmHg) - (PaCO2 / 0.8)
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What is a normal PAO2 value?
105.89 mmHg
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What is the best way to treat hypercarbia?
increase alveolar ventilation and fix hypoxemia
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How is the respiratory quotient (RQ) calculated?
CO2 production / O2 consumption
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What is a normal RQ?
0.8
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What causes a RQ > 1? RQ = 0.7?
RQ > 1 means overfeeding
| RQ = 0.7 meas starvation
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What is the A-a gradient?
difference between alveolar oxygen PAO2 and arterial oxygen PaO2
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What does the A-a gradient help diagnose?
cause of hypoxemia
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What is a normal A-a gradient at room air?
less than 15 mmHg
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Calculate the A-a gradient.
PAO2: 105
SaO2: 100
FiO2: 60
PaO2: 95
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PAO2 - PaO2
| 105 - 95 = 10 mmHg
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What increases the A-a gradient? (4)
aging, vasodilators, R-to-L shunt, diffusion limitation
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What are examples of R-to-L shunts that would increase the A-a gradient?
atelectasis, pneumonia, bronchial intubation, intracardiac defect
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How is the percentage of a shunt estimated?
shunt increases 1% for every 20mmHg of a A-a gradient
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Are lung volumes based on total body weight, lean body weight, or ideal body weight?
ideal
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how do you estimate vital capacity?
60-70mL/kg
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How do you estimate FRC?
35mL/kg
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IRV + TV + ERV + RV = ???
total lung capacity
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IRV + TV + ERV = ???
vital capacity
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IRV + TV = ???
inspiratory capacity
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RV + ERV = ??
FRC
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RV + CV = ??
closing capacity
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what is the volume of total lung capacity?
5800
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what is the volume of vital capacity?
4500
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what is the volume of inspiratory capacity?
3500
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what is the volume of FRC?
2300
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what is the volume of IRV?
3000
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what is the tidal volume?
500
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what is the volume of expiratory reserve volume?
1100
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what is the volume of residual volume?
1200
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What is the amount of gas that can be forcibly exhaled after tidal inhalation?
IRV
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what is the amount of gas that enters and exits the lungs during tidal breathing?
tidal volume
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What is the volume of gas that can be forcibly exhaled after tidal exhalation?
ERV
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What is the volume of air that remains in the lungs after complete exhalation, reservoir during apnea?
residual volume
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What is the volume above residual volume where the small airways being to close?
closing capacity
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How does obstructive lung disease affect lung volumes?
increased residual volume and TLC
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Spirometry does not measure which lung volumes?
RV, TLC, FRC, closing volume, and closing capacity
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What is the reservoir of oxygen that prevents hypoxemia during apnea?
FRC
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What is static equilibrium?
at FRC the inward elastic recoil of the lungs is balanced by outward recoil of the chest wall
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How can FRC be indirectly measured?
nitrogen washout, helium wash in, body plethysmography
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What causes a reduction in FRC?
reduced outward lung expansion or reduced lung compliance (restrictive lung diseases), increased zone 3
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How does PEEP affect FRC?
restores FRC by reducing zone 3
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How does position, induction, NMB, and surgical displacement affect FRC?
Upright position < supine < anesthetic induction < NMB < surgical displacement
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How does general anesthesia affect FRC?
decreases
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What causes general anesthesia to decrease FRC?
diaphragm shifts cephalad 4cm d/t decreased inspiratory muscle tone and increased expiratory muscle tone
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How does obesity affect FRC?
decreases
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What causes obesity to decrease FRC?
decreased chest wall compliance, increased airway collapsibility
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How does pregnancy affect FRC?
decreases
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What causes pregnancy to decrease FRC?
diaphragm shifts up, decreased chest wall compliance
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Is FRC in neonates increased or decreased?
decreased
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What causes FRC in neonates to be decreased?
less alveoli, decreased compliance, ribcage prone to collapse
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How is FRC affected by old age?
increased
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What causes FRC to increase in old age?
decreased elastic lung tissue -> air trapping -> increased RV -> increased FRC
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What positions increase and decrease FRC?
Decrease: supine, lithotomy, trendelenburg
increase: prone, sitting, lateral
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How does paralysis affect FRC?
decreases
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What causes paralysis to decrease FRC?
diaphragm moves cephalad, decreased lung volumes
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How does inadequate anesthesia affect FRC?
decreases
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What causes inadequate anesthesia to decrease FRC?
Straining -> forceful expiration -> decreased lung volumes
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How does excessive IV fluids affect FRC?
decreases
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What causes excessive fluids to decrease FRC?
Fluid accumulation in dependent lung favors zone 3
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How does high FiO2 affect FRC?
decreases
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What causes high FiO2 to decrease FRC?
absorption atelectasis -> shunt
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What causes reduced pulmonary compliance to decrease FRC?
acute lung injury, pulm. edema, pulm. fibrosis, atelectasis, P-Effusion
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How does obstructive lung disease affect FRC?
increases
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What causes obstructive lung disease to increase FRC?
air trapping -> increased RV -> increases FRC
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How does PEEP affect FRC?
increases
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How do sigh breaths affect FRC? How?
increases by recruiting collapsed alveoli
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Describe closing volume?
during exhalation: the point where pleural pressure exceeds airway pressure
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In which zone of the lung do airways collapse first?
zone 3, dependent areas due to high pleural pressure
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What factors increased CV? (CLOSE-P)
COPD, LV failure, Obesity, Supine, Extremes of age, Pregnancy
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What is closing capacity?
sum of closing volume and residual volume
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The relationship between what two variables determines if airways collapse during tidal breathing?
FRC and CC
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What situation causes the airways to close during tidal breathing?
FRC > CC or FRC < CC
FRC < CC
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In a young healthy patient, airway closure occurs just above ____
residual volume
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How can we measure CV and CC?
washout of tracer gas (nitrogen or xenon-133)
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Where is CV and CC measured?
as patient exhales from total lung capacity
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What is oxygen content (CaO2)?
measure of how much O2 is present in 1 dL of blood.
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What are the two ways O2 is transported in the blood?
dissolved in plasma 3%, reversibly binds with Hgb 97%
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What is the formula for CaO2?
CaO2 = (1.34 x Hgb x SaO2) + (PaO2 x 0.003)
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What is a normal value of CaO2?
20mL O2/dL
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How is O2 dissolved in the plasma measured?
PaO2
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What law explains how oxygen is dissolved in the plasma?
Henrys
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What law states that the concentration of gas in solution is directly proportional to the partial pressure of the gas above the solution?
Henry
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How much oxygen does each gram of Hgb carry?
1.39mL
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What is normal Hgb and Hct in males?
Hgb 15g/dL, Hct 45%
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What is normal Hgb and Hct in females?
Hgb 13g/dL, Hct 39%
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How is DO2 calculated?
CaO2 x CO x 10
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What is a normal value of DO2?
1000 mL O2/min
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What is the difference between the amount of O2 that leaves the lungs and the amount that returns?
VO2 (O2 consumption)
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How is VO2 calculated?
VO2 = CO x (CaO2 - CvO2
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How does a left shift on the oxyhemoglobin curve affect affinity?
increased affinity (left love)
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How does a right shift on the oxyhemoglobin curve affect affinity?
decreased affinity (right release)
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How will changes in temperature shift the oxyhemoglobin curve?
decreased left
| increased right
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How will changes in 2,3-DPG shift the oxyhemoglobin curve?
decreased left
| increased right
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How will changes in CO2 shift the oxyhemoglobin curve?
decreased left
| increased right
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How will changes in H+ shift the oxyhemoglobin curve?
decreased left
| increased right
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How will changes in pH shift the oxyhemoglobin curve?
increased left
| decreased right
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How will HgbMet, HgbCO, and Hgb F affect the oxyhemoglobin curve?
shift left
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At a SpO2 of 90%, PaO2 =
60
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At a SpO2 of 80%, PaO2 =
50
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At a SpO2 of 70%, PaO2 =
40
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What is P50 on the oxyhemoglobin curve?
PaO2 where 50% Hgb is saturated with O2
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Maximum O2 loading occurs at a PaO2 of what?
100mmHg
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What principle states that increased CO2 and decreased pH cause the erythrocyte to release O2?
Bohr effect
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How does hypoxia affect 2,3-DPG?
increases 2,3-DPG, right shift of curve
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How does banked blood affect the oxyhemoglobin curve?
banked blood has low 2,3-DPG -> left shift
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How is ATP produced in the body?
oxidation of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats
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Describe the phosphate bond.
high energy bond
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What is the primary substrate for ATP synthesis?
glucose
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What are the three key processes in glucose metabolism?
glycolysis, Krebs cycle, electron transport
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What is the primary goal of glycolysis?
convert 1 glucose into 2 pyruvic acid
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In the absence of oxygen, pyruvic acid is converted to what?
lactate
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Where does the Krebs cycle take place?
mitochondria matrix
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What is the primary goal of the glycolysis and the Krebs cycle?
liberate hydrogen from glucose
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What are the end products of oxidative phosphorylation?
CO2, water and 34 ATP
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What is the primary byproduct of aerobic metabolism?
CO2
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Is PvCO2 higher or lower than PaCO2?
PvCO2 is 5mmHg higher than PaCO2
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Is venous or arterial blood more acidic?
venous
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What are the three mechanisms of CO2 transport?
Bicarbonate 70%
bound to Hgb 23%
dissolved in plamsa 7%
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What ion is transported in erythrocytes to maintain electroneutrality?
chloride
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What physics principle states that oxygen causes the erythrocyte to release CO2?
Haldane effect
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Can venous or arterial blood carry more CO2 according to the Haldane effect?
venous blood can carry more
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What causes increased CO2 production? (7)
sepsis, overfeeding, MH, shivering, prolonged seizures, thyroid storm, burns
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What causes decrease CO2 elimination? (8)
Airway obstruction, increased dead space, increased Vd/Vt, ARDS, COPD, respiratory center depression, drug
overdose, inadequate NMB reversal
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What part(s) of the anesthesia machine can allow rebreathing of CO2?
incompetent one way valves, exhausted soda lime
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How does hypercapnia affect the oxyhemoglobin curve?
shifts right
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What affect does hypercapnia have on cardiac and smooth muscle?
myocardial depression and vasodilation
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How does hypercapnia affect the SNS?
increases SNS and increased catecholamine release
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How does hypercapnia affect minute ventilation?
increases
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How does hypercapnia affect potassium levels?
increases
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How does hypercapnia affect calcium levels?
Acidosis release Ca: increases inotropy
| Alkalosis binds calcium: decreases inotropy
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How does hypercapnia affect ICP?
increases. CO2 diffuses across the BBB -> increased CBF and volume
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How does hypercapnia affect level of consciousness
decreases
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How does hypercarbia increase right ventricle workload?
CO2 causes vasoconstriction in the lungs causing pulm. HTN increasing RV workload
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How does a 10 mmHg increase in PaCO2 in acute respiratory acidosis affect pH?
decreases pH 0.08
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How does a 10 mmHg increase in PaCO2 in chronic respiratory acidosis affect pH?
decreases pH 0.03
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What is the relationship between PaCO2 and minute ventilation?
CO2 ventilatory response curve
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Where are chemoreceptors located?
medulla, carotid bodies, transverse aortic arch
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What do chemoreceptors monitor?
PaCO2
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At what levels is CO2 a respiratory depressant?
PaCO2 > 80-100
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What is MAC of CO2?
200mmHg
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A left shift and increased slope of the CO2 ventilatory response curve will create what ABG reading?
respiratory alkalosis
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A right shift and decreased slope of the CO2 ventilatory response curve will create what ABG reading?
respiratory acidosis
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What is the highest PaCO2 at which a person will not breathe?
apneic threshold
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How does a left shift on the CO2 ventilatory response curve affect the apneic threshold?
decrease
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How does a right shift on the CO2 ventilatory response curve affect the apneic threshold?
increases
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What causes a left shift on the CO2 ventilatory response curve?
hypoxemia, Met. acidosis, surgical stimulation, inter cranial HTN, salicylates, aminophylline, doxapram, NE
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What causes a right shift on the CO2 ventilatory response curve?
Met. alkalosis, CEA, sleep, volatiles, opioids, NMBs
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Where is the respiratory control center located?
medulla
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Where are central chemoreceptors located?
medulla
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Where are peripheral chemoreceptors located?
carotid bodies, and aortic arch
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What CN is responsible for lung stretch receptors?
CN 10
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What CN is responsible for peripheral chemoreceptors?
CN 9, 10
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What is the respiratory center that causes inspiration? Where is it located?
dorsal respiratory. Tractus solitarius of medulla
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What is the respiratory center that causes expiration? Where is it located?
ventral respiratory. Tractus solitarius of medulla
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When is the ventral respiratory center most active?
when exhalation demand increases
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What respiratory center inhibits the dorsal respiratory center? Where is it located?
pneumotaxic. upper pons
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What respiratory center stimulates the dorsal respiratory center? Where is it located?
Apneustic. Lower pons
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What is the function of the pneumotaxic center?
triggers the end of inspiration
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What is the function of the apneustic center?
causes inspiration
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What do central chemoreceptors respond to?
PaCO2
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What do peripheral chemoreceptors respond to?
PaO2
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Which chemicals free diffuse through the BBB and which do not?
CO2, H, HCO3
CO2 diffuses
| H+ and HCO3 do not
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What is the most important stimulus for central chemoreceptors?
hydrogen concentration in the CSF
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As H+ concentration increases in the CSF what happens to the rate and depth of breathing?
rate and depth increase
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How long does it take HCO3 to equilibrate between the blood and CSF?
few hours, peaks in 2 days
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At a PaO2 < 60, the hypoxic ventilatory response closes oxygen-sensitive potassium channels in what cells?
type 1 glomus cells
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What does the hypoxic ventilatory response do to action potentials, calcium channels, and neurotransmitter release?
increase action potentials, opens Ca channels, and increases Ach and ATP release
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What nerves are responsible for the hypoxic ventilatory response?
Herings, and CN 9
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What conditions impair the hypoxic ventilatory response?
CEA and sub-anesthetic doses of inhalation and IV anesthetics
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What does not stimulate the hypoxic ventilatory response?
reduction in CaO2 in anemia and CO poisoning
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Stretch receptors in the lungs transmit information via which nerve to the dorsal respiratory center?
vagus nerve
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The dorsal respiratory center sends signals to the diaphragm via which nerve?
phrenic (C3-C5)
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What reflex turns off the dorsal respiratory center and and stops further inspiration?
Hering-Breuer
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What activates the Hering Breuer reflex?
lung inflation > 1.5L above the FRC (3x normal Vt)
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J receptor stimulation causes what type of breathing?
tachypnea
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What reflex causes the newborn to take their first breath?
paradoxical reflex of the head
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What reflex causes apnea, bradycardia, and vasoconstriction?
dive reflex (face submerged in cold water)
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What activates hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction?
reduced alveolar O2 tensions, PAO2
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What is the only region in the body that responds to hypoxia with vasoconstriction?
pulmonary vascular beds
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What drugs impair hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction?
volatile anesthetics > 1.5 MAC, vasodilators, PDE inhibitors, dobutamine, some CCB, phenylephrine, epinephrine, dopamine
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How does fluid status effect hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction?
Hypervolemia (LAP > 25) impair
| Hypovolemia causes HPV
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What ventilator settings impair hypoxic pulmonary ventilation?
excessive PEEP and high tidal volume --> increased dead space
