Breathing (English)
People with diseases that impair their breathing become chronic invalids. These diseases include ones that increase the resistance to airflow (e.g., asthma), ones that decrease lung expansion (e.g., asbestosis), as well as acute infections (pneumonia), chronic infection (tuberculosis) and lung cancers.
To nurse such people, it is essential that students understand how air normally moves in and out of the lungs and how we control this so that we match the airflow to our metabolic requirements.
Figure. Diaphragmatic positions and changes in lung volume at the ends of inspiration and expiration.
The experiment studies the respiratory system through eight exercises:
- The human respiratory system
- Mechanics of ventilation
- Normal respiration
- Hyperventilation
- Rebreathing
- Rebreathing with CO2 removed
- Breath sounds
- Lung radiology
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