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What is Oxygenation? - ANSWER ✔✔Needed to sustain life
- Cardiac and respiratory systems function to supply the body's oxygen
demand
What mechanisms are used in Oxygenation? - ANSWER
✔✔Ventilation
Perfusion
Transport of Respiratory Gases
, Ventilation - ANSWER ✔✔Process of moving gases into and out of
the lungs
Perfusion - ANSWER ✔✔Relates to the ability of the cardiovascular
system to pump oxygenated blood --> tissues and return deoxygenated
blood --> lungs
Atelectasis - ANSWER ✔✔Collapse of alveoli that prevents normal
gas exchange between carbon dioxide and oxygen
Factors Affecting Oxygenation: Physiological - ANSWER ✔✔-
Decreased oxygen-carrying capacity
- Decreased inspired oxygen concentration
- Hypovolemia
- Increased metabolic rate
Factors Affecting Oxygenation: Conditions affecting chest wall
movement - ANSWER ✔✔- Pregnancy
- Obesity
- Musculoskeletal Abnormalities
- Trauma
- Neuromuscular diseases