Voyage to the Right Lung Jenna Bullard HS130-06 Unit 4 Assignment Kaplan University 06/10/2013 Everyone board the mini-sub! Lora has a bacterium that is invading the lower lobe of her right lung. We must go now! We must destroy this bacterium before it makes her sick! We cannot let that happen her Lora. As of right now‚ we are entering the right femoral vein‚ close to the groin. The right femoral vein is parallel with the femoral artery through the upper thigh and pelvic region. It is
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process that Cari’s respiratory system is using to clear her lungs by coughing? The cough reflex is a deep and long inhalation that is followed by the closing the glottis‚ this causes a strong exhalation that will push the glottis open and sends the air through the respiratory passage. The coughing occurs when a foreign body is in the larynx‚ trachea or the epiglottis. Cari is coughing because the mucous and fluid buildup in her lungs and her body is to get rid of it. Which structures found in
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both lungs if left untreated. There are two main types of pneumothorax‚ traumatic pneumothorax‚ and spontaneous pneumothorax‚ with spontaneous pneumothorax being broken down into primary pneumothorax and secondary pneumothorax. There are several risk factors and causes of a pneumothorax. It is important to be able to recognize the signs and symptoms of a pneumothorax and how to treat them. The word “pneumothorax” can be broken down into the Latin root words “pneumo‚” meaning air or lung‚ and
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) or also known as Chronic Bronchitis or Emphysema is a disease that happens in the lungs of people who smoke. It blocks the airflow to the lungs with black tar / black carbon. Some symptoms are excessive coughing and continuously out of breath. To ease the symptoms you could you use inhalers‚ steroids‚ antibiotics or just more oxygen. This disease will slowly kill you because it affects your respiratory system
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right lung and we must make it out of the body through the nose. Now let’s start in the femoral vein located in the thigh. As we sit there in the femoral vein we are going to drain ourselves into the inferior vena cava via the external iliac vein. The inferior vena cava carries de-oxygenated blood from the lower limbs to the right atrium of the heart. I will continue north from
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Chapter 4 Exchange Background e-Learning Objectives Exchange surfaces All of the cells in your body need constant supplies of oxygen and nutrients‚ and need to get rid of waste materials‚ such as carbon dioxide‚ that are produced in their metabolic reactions. These substances are obtained from‚ or released to‚ the external environment‚ through your body’s surface. Cells and organisms have problems of scale to solve as they get bigger. As an organism gets Cube with 1 cm sides bigger‚ both its
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ability to exchange gases through alveolar-capillary membrane by using gas mixture. In this test they assess 3 things to see the efficacy of the lung; 1- Lungs’ surface area with contact diffusing alveoli which is "alveolar volume". 2- Thickness of alveolar-capillary membrane. 3- blood volume available in the pulmonary capillaries. Physiology: In normal lung the gas exchange occur by passive diffusion of the gas via the alveolar-capillary membrane following Fick’s law of diffusion which is : D = (∆P
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air) and the blood Thin and Moist Epithelium Barrier Between medium and blood High Vascularized Many blood vessels Ventilation - Pumping of water in - Pumping of air in lungs Respiratory Devices Adaptations for External Respiration: Primary Organs in Adult Vertebrates are: External and Internal Gills Swim Bladders or Lungs Skin Buccopharyngeal Mucosa Less common respiratory Devices: Filmentous (bushy outgrowths - not hair‚ just looks like it. Are skin.) of the posterior trunk and thigh (African
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Anatomy of the lungs: The lungs are in the thoracic cavity on either sides of the heart and are cone shaped. Each lung is divided into superior and inferior lobes. The right lung also has a middle lobe on top of those two. They are spongy air filled organs. The trachea‚ which is also referred to as the windpipe‚ conducts air into the lungs through the bronchi. The bronchi are further divided into smaller branches called bronchioles. Those then end in clusters of microscopic air sacs called alveoli
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HEART-LUNG MACHINE eng. Hassanain Ali Lefta Mossa * ‚ HasAli76@yahoo.com During an open-heart surgery (such as valve surgery)‚ an extracorporeal (i.e. outside the body) equipment called the heart-lung machine takes over the functions of the heart and lungs‚ so that the heart can be carefully stopped while the vital organs continue to receive blood and oxygen. The surgeon can then operate in a blood-free surgical field without interference from bleeding or the heart’s pumping motion. The principle
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