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What is the abbreviation for tidal volume? ✅Vt



What is the abbreviation for inspiratory reserve volume? ✅IRV



What is the abbreviation for expiratory reserve volume? ✅ERV



What is the abbreviations for vital capacity? ✅VC



What is the abbreviation for residual volume? ✅RV



What is the abbreviation for total lung capacity? ✅TLC



What is tidal volume? ✅amount of air inhaled and exhaled during a normal breathing cycle.



What is inspiratory reserve volume? ✅Amount of air that can be forcefully inhaled after a normal tidal
volume inhalation



What is expiratory reserve volume (ERV)? ✅amount of air that can be forcefully exhaled after a normal
tidal volume expiration



What is vital capacity? ✅the volume of air that the patient can exhale after a maximal inhalation.
Vt+IRV+ERV+RV



What is residual volume? ✅amount of air remaining in the lungs after a forced expiration.

, What is dead space? ✅The surfaces of the airway that are not involved in gaseous exchange.



Gas exchange can ONLY occur in the __________________ . ✅alveoli



How many different sets of chemoreceptors do we have? ✅2



Your ______________ chemoreceptors are located in your pons / medulla. ✅central



Your ___________________ chemoreceptors are located within your aortic arch and carotid bodies.
✅peripheral.



What are your central receptors driven by? ✅CO2 AND H+



What are your peripheral receptors driven by? ✅O2, CO2, H+



What is V/Q Scanning? ✅A nuclear medicine study used to evaluate the circulation of air and blood
within a patient's lungs in order to determine the ventilation/perfusion ratio.



Which part of the V/Q looks at the ability of air to reach all parts of the lungs? ✅The ventilation portion.



What part of the V/Q test looks at how well the blood circulates in the lungs? ✅The perfusion part?



What medical emergency can a V/Q scanning screen for? ✅A pulmonary embolus (PE)



what is Fick Formula? ✅(V/Q-Ventilation/Perfusion) It calculates how much o2 a person uses - measures
cardiac output, assuming o2 uptake by lungs equals o2 delivery



What is hypercarbic respiratory failure? What is it evidenced by? ✅The inability to remove CO2.
Respiratory acidosis

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