The Respiratory System 3

Question 1

How can tidal volume be increased?

Answer 1

By inhaling more vigorously and exhaling more completely

Question 2

What is alveolar volume?

Answer 2

The amount of air reaching the alveoli each minute

Question 3

What is the amount of air reaching the alveoli each minute called?

Answer 3

Alveolar volume

Question 4

What is tidal volume called?

Answer 4

The amount of air inhaled or exhaled with each breath

Question 5

What is the amount of air inhaled or exhaled with each breath called?

Answer 5

Tidal volume

Question 6

What is vital capacity?

Answer 6

The tidal volume plus expiratory and inspiratory reserve volumes

Question 7

What is tidal volume + expiratory + inspiratory reserve volumes called?

Answer 7

Vital capacity

Question 8

What is residual volume?

Answer 8

Air left in lungs after maximum exhalation

Question 9

What is the air left in the lungs after maximum exhalation?

Answer 9

Residual volume

Question 10

What is resting tidal volume?

Answer 10

The amount of air you move into or out of your lungs during a single respiratory cycle under resting conditions

Question 11

What is the average resting tidal volume for both males and females?

Answer 11

500mls in both males and females

Question 12

What is the amount of air you move into or out of your lungs during a single respiratory cycle under resting conditions called?

Answer 12

Resting Tidal Volume

Question 13

What is expiratory reserve volume?

Answer 13

The amount of air that you can voluntarily expel after you have completed a normal, quiet respiratory cycle

Question 14

What is the amount of air that you can voluntarily expel after you have completed a normal quiet respiratory cycle called?

Answer 14

Expiratory Reserve Volume

Question 15

What is ERV in females?

Answer 15

700 mls

Question 16

What is ERV in males?

Answer 16

1000 mls

Question 17

What is residual volume?

Answer 17

The amount of air that remains in your lungs even after a maximal exhalation

Question 18

What is the amount of air that remains in your lungs even after a maximal exhalation called?

Answer 18

Residual volume

Question 19

What is the average residual volume in males?

Answer 19

1200 mls

Question 20

What is the average residual volume in females?

Answer 20

1100 mls

Question 21

What is inspiratory reserve volume?

Answer 21

The amount of air that you can take in above the Tidal volume

Question 22

What is the amount of air that you can take in above the Tidal volume called?

Answer 22

Inspiratory reserve volume

Question 23

What is average inspiratory reserve volume in men?

Answer 23

3300mls

Question 24

What is the average inspiratory reserve volume in women?

Answer 24

1900 mls

Question 25

What is vital capacity?

Answer 25

The maximum amount of air that you can move into or out of your lungs in a single respiratory cycle

Question 26

What is the maximum amount of air that you can move into or out of your lungs in a single respiratory cycle called?

Answer 26

Vital capacity

Question 27

What is the equation for vital capacity?

Answer 27

Expiratory reserve + tidal volume + inspiratory reserve

Question 28

What is total lung capacity?

Answer 28

Total volume of the lungs = vital capacity + residual volume

Question 29

What is the vital capacity + residual volume equal to?

Answer 29

Total lung capacity

Question 30

What is the average total lung capacity for males?

Answer 30

6000 ml in males

Question 31

What is the average total lung capacity for females?

Answer 31

4500 mls

Question 32

Give an example of a pulmonary function test.

Answer 32

The forced test

Question 33

What can asthma and cigarette-related lung disease do? | 4

Answer 33

It can alter the volumes that can be contained within and expired from the lungs They increase the resistance to gas flow offered by the conducting airways Breathing becomes difficult Gas exchange becomes impaired

Question 34

What is forced vital capacity?

Answer 34

When a vital capacity manoeuvre is carried out with maximal effort to expel all the vital capacity in the minimal possible time interval

Question 35

List four obstructive disorders.

Answer 35

Asthma Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Cystic fibrosis Lung cancer/tumours

Question 36

What is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?

Answer 36

Chronic bronchitis or emphysema or both together

Question 37

What indicates an obstructive pulmonary disorder? | 3

Answer 37

Normal or slightly low FVC Low FEV 1 Low ratio = 40-50%

Question 38

List five restrictive disorders.

Answer 38

Pulmonary fibrosis Damage to rib cage Skeletal disorder Muscular disorder Pulmonary edema

Question 39

Give an example of a skeletal disorder

Answer 39

Scoliosis

Question 40

Give an example of a muscular disorder

Answer 40

Muscular dystrophy

Question 41

Give an example of a pulmonary edema

Answer 41

Right heart failure

Question 42

What three things indicate a restrictive lung disorder?

Answer 42

Very low FVC Low FEV1 High or normal ratio e.g. 90%