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Physiology II - PB 3325
Course Director: Mrs. Kay Brashear




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Study Guide                                           Exam 4

Chapter 38  PULMONARY CIRCULATION

1. How does the pulmonary circulation differ structurally and functionally from the systemic circulation?
2. How do pulmonary vessel compliance and resistance compare with systemic vessel compliance and resistance?
3. Why does pulmonary vessel resistance decrease as the flow increases?
4. What are the characteristics of pulmonary capillaries?
5. What is the function of the bronchial circulation.  What is its origin and where does it drain?
6. Be able to compare pressures in the pulmonary circulation and the systemic circulation:
systolic, diastolic, MAP, pulse pressure, etc.
7. Know the local flow regulatory mechanism in the pulmonary circulation.  What is hypoxic vasoconstriction?
8. What is the role of the ANS in controlling pulmonary blood flow?
9. Know the three zones of flow in the lung. How does exercise affect flow? Hydrostatic pressure?
10. Know the effect of an increase in cardiac output on pressures in the pulmonary circulation.
11. What is the effect of left atrial pressure on pulmonary circulation?
12. How does pulmonary capillary dynamics differ from systemic capillary dynamics?
Know the four pressures, what causes them and how they affect capillary function..  Know the significance of the -8 interstitial pressure.
13. What are the causes of pulmonary edema?  What is the difference between acute and chronic edema?
14. What is pleural effusion?

Chapter 37  PULMONARY VENTILATION

1. What are the "air conditioning" functions of the nasal cavity?
2. Know the zones of the tracheobronchial tree.  How does structure change from the trachea to the alveoli?  What is a terminal respiratory unit?  Where is anatomical space located?
3. How is bronchial smooth muscle controlled? (ANS, humoral, local & irritants)
4. Negative pressure breathing:
Know Boyle's law and how it related to breathing.  Know the respiratory pressures and how they influence inspiration and expiration:  pleural, alveolar and transpulmonary pressures.
5. Lung compliance:  Know the average lung compliance.  How does lung compliance change with changing lung volume?
6. What are the two factors that increase the tendency of lungs to collapse?
(elasticity and surface tension)
7. What role does surfactant play in decreasing surface tension?
8. In addition to a decrease in surface tension, what other factors stabilize alveoli?
9. Work of Breathing or Respiration
    Know the 3 types of work.
    How do exercise and diseases affect work?
10. Respiratory Volumes and Capacities:
    Know the definition and the volumes of all respiratory volumes and capacities.
    What is the significance of the FRC?
11. What is MRV (minute respiratory volume)
     Be able to calculate a MRV if given data.
12. What is alveolar ventilation?  VA
     Be able to calculate alveolar ventilation if given data.

Chapter 39                            Principles of Gas Exchange

1. Know the significance of Dalton's Law. Given an atmospheric pressure, could you calculate a partial pressure of oxygen?
2. Know Henry's Law.  What are the two factors that determine the pressure of a dissolved gas?
Which gas is more soluble, oxygen or carbon dioxide?  How does this solubility affect the parial prssures of those gases in blood?
3. At body temperature, what is the water vapor pressure of warmed and fully humidified air?
How does the addition of humidified air affect the partial pressures of gases in a mixture?
4. Why are the alveolar partial pressures stable at rest?
5. What are the components of:
        a. a respiratory unit
        b. the respiratory membrane
6. What is the diffusing capacity of the respiratory membrane? What factors determine diffusion through the respiratory membrane?   How does exercise affect the diffusing capacity of the respiratory membrane?
7. How much oxygen is transported each minute at rest to maintain resting metabolism?
8. What is the ventilation-perfussion ratio and why is it important?
        a. What changes in the ratio will cause physiological dead space?
        b. What changes in the ratio will cause a physiological shunt?
9. Why is the ventilaiton-perfussion ratio not constant from the apex to the base of the lung?

Chapter 40    Transport of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in Blood and Body Fluids

1. Can you calculate dissolved oxygen if given the pressure?  (.003 ml. of oxygen for each mm. Hg. partial pressure)
2. Can you calculate oxygen transported by hemoglobin if given the saturation and the grams of hemoglobin?    (1.34 ml. oxygen/gram of hemoglobin)
3. Know the partial pressure of oxygen and carbon dioxide at the following locations:
        alveolus
        arterial blood
        interstitial space
        cellular level (tissues)
        venous blood
4. What is the oxygen transport at 100% saturation and 15 grams of hemoglobin?
5. Oxygen-Hemoglobin dissociation curve:
        a. What is the relationship between the partial pressure of oxygen and the saturation
            of hemoglobin?
        b. What is the relationship between the saturation of hemoglobin and oxygen transport?
        c. What factors will shift the curve?  What is the Bohr effect?
        d. How does a shift in the curve affect the affinity that hemoglobin has for oxygen?
            How does a change in affinity for oxygen affect oxygen release at the tissues and oxygen
            binding at the lung?
6. What is partial pressure of oxygen required at the cellular level to maintain resting metabolism?
7. What are the three mechanisms for carbon dioxide transport from the cells to the lungs?
8. What is the Haldane effect?  How does the Haldane effect change carbon dioxide diffusion at the lungs and at the tissues?
9.Hypoventilation and hyperventilation:
        a. How do changes in breathing rate affect the plasma partial pressure of carbon dioxide?
        b. How do changes in breathing rate affect the pH?
10. What is the respiratory quotient?  What determines the respiratory quotient?

Copyright, Kay Brashear and James B. Parker, 1999