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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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show metabolism  
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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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show highest in the cells 60 mm Hg and lowest to room air 1 mm Hg  
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show Oxygen has a cascade gradient moving from atmosphere to Intracellular. Carbon dioxide moves from intracellular to the atmosphere.  
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The carbon dioxide diffusion gradients cascade causes.....   show
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Alveolar partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PACO2)   show
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What factor is used to convert VCO2 from STPD to BTPS?   show
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what is the formula used to convert VCO2 from STPD to BTPS?   show
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show 35-45mm Hg  
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show ventilation automatically increases to maintain PACO2 within normal range  
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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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The only partial pressures that change int he alveolus are? Why?   show
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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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If patient is breathing room air at sea level the RT should or shouldn't exspect to see a PaO2 any higher that 120 mm Hg during hyperventilation?   show
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show patient is breathing supplemental oxygen  
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show process of gas molecules moving from an area of high partial pressure to low partial pressure  
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show barriers  
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Alveolar capillary membrane   show
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show alveolar epithelium, intersitial space, capillary endothelium  
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show the greater the surface area, diffusion constant, and pressure gradient, the more diffusion will occur  
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show gass pressure gradients  
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What must exist in order for gas exchange to occure between the alveoli and pulmonary capillaries?   show
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In pulmonary diffusion Alveolar PaO2 averages how many mm Hg?   show
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show 40 mm Hg  
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In pulmonary diffusion PvO2 is how many mm HG?   show
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In pulmonary diffusion PvCO2 is how many mm Hg?   show
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The pressure gradient for oxygen diffusion into the blood is approximately?   show
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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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show 0.75 seconds  
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Low concentrations of what are used more commonly to measure diffusing capacity of the lung?   show
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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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show alveolar PO2 lower, PCO2 higher than normal  
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show dead space  
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Alveolar shunts   show
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Regional differences in V/Q ratios in the normal lung are caused by?   show
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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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show ventilation exceeds blood flow resulting in high V/Q (3.3), high PO2 (132 mm Hg), low PCO2 (32 mm Hg).  
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V/Q at bases of lungs   show
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show 1.dissolved in plasma and erythrocyte fluid. 2. majority is carried in combination with hemeglobin inside the RBC  
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Formula for Dissolve oxygen in blood?   show
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show important blood buffer for hydrogen ions, important in carbon dioxide transport  
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show oxygen molecules bind to Hb by way of ferrous iron ion and coverted to it's oxygenated state  
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show 1.34 ml  
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show 70 fold as compared to plasma alone  
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show measure of proportion of available Hb that is actually carrying oxygen  
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show SaO2=[HbO2 / Total Hb]*100  
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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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show 5 ml/dl  
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show arteriovenous oxygen contents difference. Amount of O2 given up by every 100mL of blood on each pass through thet tissues  
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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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What are some factors other than HbO2 curve that affect oxygen unloading and loading?   show
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show impact of changes in blood pH on Hb affinity for O2. It alters the position of the HbO2 dissociation curve.  
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show right  
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A high pH shifts a curve to the?   show
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When blood ph drops and shifts the curve to the right the Hb saturation for a given PO2...   show
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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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show It decreases in concentration over time and after a week of storage there is less than 1/3 of the normal value of DPG. This shifts the HbO2 curve to the left decreasing availability of oxygen to the tissues.  
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What happens with large transfusions of banked blood that is more that a few days old?   show
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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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What events cause the hb to crystalize and the RBC to become hardened and curved like a sickle?   show
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show vaso-occlusive disease and anemia.  
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Acute chest syndrome? Symptoms?   show
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show abnormal form of the molecule where the heme-complex normal ferrous iron ion loses an electron and oxidizes to its ferric state.  
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What happens in the ferric state of methemoglobin?   show
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What happens as a result of the iron ion not being able to combine with oxygen in the ferric state of methemoglobin?   show
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What is the most common cause of methemoglobinemia?   show
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What color is the blood of a patient who has methemoglobin?   show
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How do we confirm that a patient has methemoglobin?   show
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show reducing agents such as methylene blue or absorbic acid when the blood level exceeds app. 40%  
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Carboxyhemoglobin   show
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Hemeglobins affinity for carbon monoxide is how much more greter than it is for oxygen.   show
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show left. Impeding oxygen delivery to the tissues  
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show giving the patient as muxh oxygen as possible because oxygen reduces the half-life of carboxyhemoglobin. Sometimes a hyperbaric chamber is used  
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show blood having a high proportion of an Hb varian during fetal life and for up to 1 year after birth  
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Fetal hemoglobin causes a shift to the?   show
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show aids oxygen loading at the placenta  
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show low  
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show this enhanced oxygen affinity is less advantageous after birth. Over the first year of life HbF is gradually replaced with normal Hb.  
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P50   show
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show 26.6 mm Hg  
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show right.  
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Conditions with an increase in affinity cause a shift to the? What happens to P50?   show
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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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show carbamino compound  
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what is carbaminohemoglobin? what percentage does it transport?   show
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Approximately what percent of the blood carbon dioxide is transported as bicarbonate?   show
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Hydrolysis   show
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show carbonic acid  
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What enzyme enhances the hydrolysis reaction?   show
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Where does the majority of hydrolysis occur?   show
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show Bicarbonate begins to accumulate in teh RBC  
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show by the chloride shift  
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Chloride shift   show
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show influence of oxyhemoglobin saturation on CO2 dissociation  
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What is the Haldane effect a result of?   show
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show Decreases. unloading  
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show DO2=CaO2*Qt  
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Hypoxia   show
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In what three ways will hypoxia occur?   show
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show when partial pressure of O2 in the arterial blood (PaO2) is decreased to lower than normal.  
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show low ambient PO2, hypoventilation, impaired diffusion, V/Q imbalances, right to left anatomical or physiological shunting, aging, altitude  
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show 85 mm Hg  
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Mountain sickness   show
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show indirectly  
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Even when alveolar PO2 is normal disorders of the alveolar capillary membrane may limit diffuion of oxygen into the pulmonary bed thereby lowering the? Diseases that do this are?   show
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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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show both excess wated ventilation and poor oxygentation. Because the imbalance impairs O2 exchange and PaO2 is reduced  
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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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Formula for estimating the expected PaO2 in older adults   show
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show enough normal Hb in the blood  
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show Yes. Because of low oxygen content in the arterial blood  
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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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show caused by either displacement of O2 from normal Hb or prescence of abnormal Hb variants.  
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What can a low Hb content do to the oxygen carrying capacity of the blood?   show
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Hypoxia can still occur when the CaO2 is normal if?   show
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show circulatory failure(shock), local reduction in perfusion(ishemia)  
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What happens with prolonged shock?   show
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show anaerobic metabolism, metabolic acidosis, eventual death of tissue  
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show form of hypoxia in which cellular uptake of O2 is abnormally decreased  
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show cyanide poisoning. It disrupts intracellular system preventing cellular use of oxygen  
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Dysoxia also may occur when...   show
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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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In sepsis and ARDS oxygen debt may occur at normal levels of?   show
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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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Inadequate minute ventilation is caused by?   show
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show restrictive conditions: atelectasis, neuromuscular disorders, or conditions that impede thoracic expansion (kyphoscoliosis)  
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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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show the proportion of wasted deadspace increases and lowers alveolar ventilation and impairs CO2 removal  
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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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show patients minute ventilation must increase  
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Patients who can increase their minute ventilation with V/Q imbalance then to have?   show
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show hypercapnic. This occurs only when V/Q imbalance is severe and chronic like with COPD  
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When a patient is hypercapnic what must happen for them to maintain a normal PaCO2?   show
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