UTA Nurs 5315 Mod 6 Dr. Gonzalez Questions With 100% Correct Answers.

Minute Ventilation is a ___________ - Answer-Measure of how effective ventilation is RR x volume of air per breath Alveolar ventilation an only be assessed by measuring a __________ - Answer-PaCO2 The ________ and the _____________ are located in the medulla and are responsible for controlling breathing patterns - Answer-Dorsal respiratory group (DRG) Ventral respiratory group (VRG) Where are the peripheral chemoreceptors located that monitor ? - Answer-aorta and carotid arteries pH and PaO2 levels What is compliance used to describe? - Answer-how easily the lungs and chest wall can be stretched ________ compliance means that the lungs and chest wall are difficult to inflate - Answer-decreased Compliance ______ with COPD - Answer-increases What are 4 things in which you would see decreased compliance? - Answer-- acute respiratory distress syndrome - pneumonia - pulmonary edema - pulmonary fibrosis In normal physiology, the airway resistance is normally very ____ - Answer-Low bronchoconstriction naturally ____________________ - Answer-increases airway resistance caused by smooth muscles of PNS_____ distribution of ventilation and perfusion is required for effective gas exchange - Answer-Equal The bases of the lungs are better perfused when in the _________________. - Answer-upright position Ventilation is greater than perfusion in the _____ - Answer-apices (very top) Perfusion is greater than ventilation in the _____ - Answer-bases of the lungs