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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
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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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