Respiratory Physiology
Respiratory Physiology
- Alveolar gas equation
- Dead space
- Bohr equation
- Shunt
- Alveolar time constants
- V/Q matching
- Lung volumes
- Measuring lung volumes
- Spirometry
- Flow-volume loops
- Compliance
- Surfactant
- Work of breathing
- Control of breathing
- The cough reflex
- Gas exchange
- Oxygen delivery and transport
- Oxyhaemoglobin dissociation curve
- Hypoxia
- Pulmonary vascular resistance
- Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction
- CO2 homeostasis
- Physiological effects of hypercarbia
- Effect of IPPV
- Effect of anaesthesia on lung function
- Altitude (hypobaric pressures)
- Diving (hyperbaric pressures)
- Non-respiratory functions of the lung