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Homeostasis - ANSWER✔✔✔-Regulation of acid base balance to
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maintain normal physiological function
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Pre-Botzinger complex - ANSWER✔✔✔-- basic respiratory rhythm
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- respiratory pattern generator is located here
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Hypoxemia produces hyperventilation by a direct effect on the -
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ANSWER✔✔✔-carotid and aortic body chemoreceptors | | | |




Most important factor in the control of VENTILATION under normal
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conditions is - ANSWER✔✔✔-PaCO2
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Hyperventilation - ANSWER✔✔✔-- Greater degree of voluntary control
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can be exerted over the output from the medullary respiratory center
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during this |




- CO2 removal from the lungs that exceeds its production by the tissues
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, Increased PaCO2 - ANSWER✔✔✔-results in an INCREASE in alveolar
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Ventilation (VA) |




Peripheral chemoreceptors - ANSWER✔✔✔-- sensitive to LOW PaO2
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values


Shallow-water blackout occurs due to - ANSWER✔✔✔--
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unconsciousness due to hypoxia BEFORE the CO2 trigger to breathe is
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reached |




- influenced by suppression of hypoxic ventilatory response
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Hypoxic Hypoxia - ANSWER✔✔✔--Low arterial PO2
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-High altitude, alveolar hypoventilation, decreased lung diffusion
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capacity, abnormal ventilation-perfusion ratio
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- reduced partial pressure of oxygen in the breathing gas or alveoli
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Metabolic Alkalosis - ANSWER✔✔✔-- elevation of HCO3- usually caused
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by an excessive loss of metabolic acids
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- elevated plasma pH
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Respiratory Alkalosis due to hyperventilation - ANSWER✔✔✔-- for the
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paper bag method, rebreathing CO2 reestablishes a proper blood CO2
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