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Gas Exchange and Transport

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show process of getting O2 into the body for tissue utilization and removal of CO2 into the atmosphere  
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Oxygen must be moved into the lungs where it.......   show
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Carbon dioxide builds up into the tissues because of.....   show
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Carbon dioxide diffuses into....   show
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Gas movement between lungs and tissues occure by?   show
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What is the diffusion gradient for oxygen?   show
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What is the final gradient for oxygen infusion into the cell? How many mm Hg?   show
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What is the diffusion gradient for carbon dioxide?   show
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What is the difference of the oxygen diffusion gradient compared to the carbon dioxide diffusion gradient.   show
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show CO2 to move from tissues into the venous blood, which is transported to the lungs and out to the atmosphere  
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Alveolar partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PACO2)   show
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show 0.863  
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show PACO2= VCO2 * 0.863 --------------- VA (alveolar ventilation)  
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show 35-45mm Hg  
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If carbon dioxide production increase as with exercise or fever what happens to ventilation?   show
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What is the most important facto in determining the alveolar partial pressure of oxygen (PAO2)?   show
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show water vapor and carbon dioxide  
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What is the alveolar air equation formula?   show
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According to Dalton's law the partial pressure of alveolar nitrogen must....   show
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show PAN2= PB-(PAO2+PACO2+PH2O)  
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show oxygen and carbon dioxide. Because both water vapor tension and PAN2 remain constant.  
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show vary inversely with PACO2  
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show 140 mm Hg  
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Neural control mechanisms and increased work of breathing prevent decreases in PaCO2 much below?   show
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show should not exspect any higher than 120 mm Hg  
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show patient is breathing supplemental oxygen  
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Diffusion   show
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In order for oxygen to diffuse into and out of the lung and tissues, O2 and carbon dioxide must move through....   show
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Alveolar capillary membrane   show
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What 3 barriers must be penetrated in order for O2 and CO2 to move btw alveoli and pulmonary capillary blood?   show
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Fick's first law of Diffusion   show
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show gass pressure gradients  
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show difference in partial pressures  
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show 100 mm Hg  
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In pulmonary diffusion Mean PaCO2 is approximately how many mm Hg?   show
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In pulmonary diffusion PvO2 is how many mm HG?   show
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show 46 mm Hg  
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show 60 mm Hg  
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show 20 times faster. Because of its much higher solubility in the plasma.  
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show rate of pulmonary blood flow  
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How long does blood take to flow through the pulmonary capilary?   show
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show carbon monoxide (0.1%-0.3%)  
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The PaO2 of healthy person breathing at sea level is approximately how much less than the calculated PaO2?   show
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2 factors that account for the 5-10 mm Hg difference in calculated PaO2 are?   show
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show 1.bronchial venous drainage 2.thebsian venous drainage  
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show causes it to move directly into the arterial circulation, lowering the oxygen content of the arterial blood.  
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What is the ideal ventilation and perfusion ratio?   show
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show ventilation is greater than normal, perfusion is less than normal, or both. LOW- ventilation is less than normal, perfusion is greater than normal, or both.  
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In areas with low V/Q the alveolar PO2 is? PCO2 is?   show
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Area with ventilation but no blood flow represent?   show
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Alveolar shunts   show
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show gravity and most evident in the upright position  
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Does perfusion increase or decrease farther down the lung?   show
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show increases. Four times as much ventilation than apexes.  
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V/Q at apexes of lungs   show
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V/Q at bases of lungs   show
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(Oxygen Transport)blood carries O2 in what 2 forms?   show
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show Dissolved oxygen= PO2*0.003  
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Deoxygenated hemoglobin serves as a what in transport?   show
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Oxyhemoglobin   show
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show 1.34 ml  
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Hb increases the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood by how much?   show
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show measure of proportion of available Hb that is actually carrying oxygen  
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Hb saturation formula   show
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show relationship btw PaO2 and SaO2 is S shaped  
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show total oxygen content of bloo equals the sum of that dissolved and chemically combined with Hb  
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Formula for Total oxygen content of blood   show
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show 16-20 ml/dl  
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What is the difference between the arterial and venous oxygen contents?   show
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C(a-v)O2   show
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show The C(a-v)O2 combined with total-body oxygen to calculate cardiac output  
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Normal range for cardiac output   show
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show increase the C(a-v)o2  
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show C(a-v)O2 will decrease  
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show blood pH, body temp, erythrocyte concentration of certain organic phosphates, variations in the structure of Hb, chemical combinations of Hb with substances other than O2  
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Bohr effect.....What does it do?   show
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A low pH shifts a curve to the?   show
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A high pH shifts a curve to the?   show
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show falls  
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show rises  
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As blood in the tissue picks up CO2, pH falls and the HbO2 curve shifts to the? Does it increase or decrease the affinity of Hb for oxygen?   show
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With a lower of the affinity of Hb for O2 Hb readily gives up what to the tissues?   show
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Venous blood returns to the lungs and the pH does what? This shifts the curve to the? Does this increase or decrease the affinity of Hb for oxygen?   show
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A drop in body temperature shifts the HbO2 cureve to the?   show
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show right, affinity of Hb for O2 decreases.  
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show metabolic rate  
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show found in abundance in the RBC's and forms a loose chemical bond with the globin chains of deoxygenated Hb.  
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2,3-DPG does what to the molecule in it's deoxygenated state?   show
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What would happen if we didn't have 2,3-DPG?   show
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show right. Oxygen unloading  
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Low 2,3-DPG concentrations shift the curve to the? And does what to the Hb affinity for O2?   show
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Alkalosis, chronic hypoxemia, and anemia all increase or decrease 2,3-DPG concentrations?   show
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show lowers the level of DPG and a greater affinity of Hb for O2.  
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What happens to DPG in banked blood?   show
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show It impairs oxygen delivery even in the presence of a normal PO2  
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show when the amino acid swquence in the molecule's polypeptide chains varies from normal.  
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What percent of the circulating hemoglobin are abnormal in a healthy individual?   show
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show abnormal hemoglobin that is less soluable and causes the hemoglobin to become suceptible to polymerization and precipitation when deoxygenated  
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show dehydration, hypoxia, acidosis  
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Patients with sickle cell are prone to?   show
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Acute chest syndrome? Symptoms?   show
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Methemoglobin   show
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What happens in the ferric state of methemoglobin?   show
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show a special form of anemia results called methhemoglobinemia  
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show therapeutic use of medications containg nitrogen. Nitric oxide, nitroglycerine, lidocaine  
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show brown, slate-gray skin coloration  
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How do we confirm that a patient has methemoglobin?   show
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How is methemoglobin treated?   show
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Carboxyhemoglobin   show
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show 200 times greater  
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show left. Impeding oxygen delivery to the tissues  
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What is the treatment for carbon monoxide poisoning?   show
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Fetal Hemoglobin   show
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show left. HbF has a greater affinity for oxygen than does normal adult Hb  
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show aids oxygen loading at the placenta  
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show low  
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What happens after birth with the Fetal hemoglobin?   show
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show partial pressure of oxygen at which the Hb is 50% saturated, standardized to a pH of 7.40  
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show 26.6 mm Hg  
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Conditions that cause an decrease in Hb affinity for oxygen cause a shift to the?   show
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show left. P50 decreases to lower than normal  
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How much carbon dioxide is carried in the blood?   show
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In what three forms is carbon dioxide carried in the blood?   show
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Dissolved carbon dioxide plays an important role in? How much is released at the lungs?   show
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Carbon dioxide hasa the capacity to chemically cobine with free amino groups of protein molecules forming a?   show
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show A compound of carbon dioxide and hemoglobin, which is one of the forms in which carbon dioxide exists in the blood. 12% of the total carbon dioxide.  
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show 80%  
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show chemical process in which a molecule is cleaved into two parts by the addition of a molecule of water  
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show carbonic acid  
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show carbonic anhydrase  
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Where does the majority of hydrolysis occur?   show
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What happens when hydrolysis of carbon dioxide continues for a while?   show
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How is equilibrium obtained when bicarbonate accumulates in the RBC?   show
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Chloride shift   show
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Haldane effect   show
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What is the Haldane effect a result of?   show
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show Decreases. unloading  
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What is the formula for oxygen delivery?   show
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Hypoxia   show
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In what three ways will hypoxia occur?   show
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When does hypoxemia occur?   show
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What things might a decreased PaO2 be caused by?   show
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show 85 mm Hg  
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Mountain sickness   show
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Alveolar PO2 varies directly or indirectly with alveolar PCO2?   show
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show PaO2. Interstitual edema, Pulmonary fibrosis  
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What is the most common cause of hypoxemia in patients with lung disease?   show
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show there is wasted ventilation, alveolar dead space  
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What happens when ventilation is less than perfusion?   show
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What does ventilation perfusion imbalances usually occur in lung disease? Why?   show
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show there is blood flow but no ventilation and is equivalent to a right to left anatomical shunt  
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show If the O2 is more than 50% and the PaO2 is less than 50% significant shunting is present. otherwise it is a V/Q imbalance  
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show Expected PaO2=100.1-(0.323*Age in years)  
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show enough normal Hb in the blood  
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Can hypoxia occur if the Hb is low even when the PaO2 is normal? Why?   show
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What are the 2 hemoglobin deficiencies?   show
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show occurs when Hb concentration is lower than normal due to a low blood Hb concentration by either loss from hemorrhage or inadequate erythropoesis.  
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What is relative Hb deficiency?   show
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show seriously impair the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood  
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show blood flow is reduced  
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show circulatory failure(shock), local reduction in perfusion(ishemia)  
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show causes irreversible damage to the central nervous system and eventual cardiovascular collapse  
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show anaerobic metabolism, metabolic acidosis, eventual death of tissue  
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Dysoxia   show
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What is an example of dysoxia?   show
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show tissue oxygen consumption becomes dependent on O2 delivery  
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show tissue extraction reaches a maximum and decreases delivery of O2 resulting in a oxygen debt due to oxygen demand exceeding oxygen delivery  
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show oxygen delivery  
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Any disorder that lowers alveolar ventilation relative to metabolic need impairs?   show
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show hypercapnia and respiratory acidosis  
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show minute ventilation is inadequate, dead space ventilation per minute increases, or a ventilation perfusion imbalance exists  
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show decreased tidal volume  
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Inadequate minute ventilation occurs in what types of conditions?   show
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show drug overdose  
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show rapid shallow breathing, or increased physiologic dead space (V/Q 0)  
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What does increased dead space ventilation cause?   show
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IN theory V/Q imbalance should cause a rise in PACO2. However many patients who are hypoxemic because of a V/Q imbalance have a low or normal PaCO2. What does this suggest?   show
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To compensate for high PCO2 values with V/Q imbalances what must happen?   show
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Patients who can increase their minute ventilation with V/Q imbalance then to have?   show
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Patients with an V/Q imbalance who cannot increase their minute ventilation are? when does this occur?   show
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When a patient is hypercapnic what must happen for them to maintain a normal PaCO2?   show
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