Nrsg 3240 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

inspiration - uses muscles in the ribcage and diaphragm, breathing in expiration - passive; breathing out gas exchange - -occurs in lungs and surrounding capillaries external respiration - occurs in alveoli when RBCs return to CO2 to lungs internal respiration - occurs in all capillaries when RBCs deposit O2 respirations are affected by - brain impulse, exercise, smoking, disease, chemoreceptors, pain, fever, and age normal adult respiration rate - 12-20 breaths per minute