Week 7- Ventilation and Gas Exchange Flashcards
What is a capacity?
The sum of two or more volumes
What is a volume?
Discrete sections of a lung function graph that dont overlap
What is minute ventilation and what is the formula for calculating it?
Gas entering and leaving the lungs
Tidal volume x breathing frequency
What is alveolar ventilation and what is the formula for calculating it?
Gas entering and leaving the alveoli
(Tidal volume - dead space) x breathing frequency
What is the usual minute ventilation?
6L/min
What is the usual alveolar ventilation?
4.2 L/min
What factors affect lung volumes and capacities?
Body size Fitness Age Disease Sex
What is the conducting zone?
Equivalent to dead space, no gas exchange occours, 16 generation
What is the respiratory zone?
Alveolar ventilation where gas exchange occours, around 7 generations
What are non perfused parenchyma?
Alveolar dead space- alveoli without a blood supply, no gas exchange
How can dead space volume be decreased?
Tracheostomy
Cricothyrocotomy
How can dead space volume be increased?
Aneasthetic circuit
Snorkelling
What membrane are the lungs surrounded by?
Visceral pleural membrane
What is the inner surface of the chest wall covered by?
Parietal pleural membrane
What is negative pressure breathing?
P alv is below P atm
What is positive pressure breathing?
P alv is above P atm
What type of breathing is normal breathing?
Negative pressure breathing
What is the gap between pleural membranes called?
The pleural cavity
Describe the pleural cavity
Has a fixed volume, contains protein rich pleural fluid
What is transmural pressure
Pressure inside membrane - pressure outside the membrane
What is Daltons law?
Pressure of a gas mixture is equal to the sum of the partial pressures of gases in that mixture
What is Ficks law?
Molecules diffuse from a region of high conc to low conc at a rate proportional to the conc gradient, exchange surface area, diffusion capacity of the gas and inversely proportional to the thickness of the exchange surface
What is Henrys law?
At a constant temp the amount of a given gas that dissolves in a given type and volume of liquid is directly proportional to the partial pressure of the gas in equilibrium with that liquid
What is Boyles law?
At a constant pressure, the volume of a gas is inversely proportional to the pressure of the gas
What is Charles’ law?
At a constant pressure the volume of a gas is proportional to the temperature of that gas
What happens to gas as it moves down the airways?
Air is warmed, humidified, slowed and mixed