Respiratory Conditions

Question 1

Acute respiratory distress syndrome

Answer 1

ARDS
Post injury when pulmonary capillaries become engorged and permeability increases causing interstitial and intraaveolar edema ending in decreased alveolar surfactant and alveolar collapse

Question 2

Tuberculosis

Answer 2

Caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that usually effects the lungs but can also effect the brain or kidneys

Question 3

External respiration

Answer 3

Exchange of gases between lungs and pulmonary capillaries

Question 4

Internal respiration

Answer 4

Exchange of gases between the blood cells and tissues

Question 5

Pulsus paradoxus

Answer 5

When systolic BP drops more than 10 mmHg during inhalation