UC NURS 8022 Pulmonary Exam Questions All Correctly Answered New Update
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NURS 8022
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NURS 8022
UC NURS 8022 Pulmonary Exam Questions All Correctly Answered New Update
Upper airway, Larynx, Lower airway - Answer -Conducting airways of pulmonary system
Diaphragm - Answer -Dome shaped muscle involved in ventilation
Carina - Answer -Ridge where the trachea divides into the right and l...
Diaphragm - Answer -Major muscle of breathing. Performs 80% of the work of
breathing.
External intercostals - Answer -Accessory muscles- raise ribs up and out, often during
respiratory distress
Lymph vessles - Answer -Present in all supportive tissues of lungs
Phrenic nerve (C3 - C5) - Answer -Innervates diaphragm. Received voluntary and
involuntary respiratory messages from CNS
Respiratory center - Answer -Located in brainstem
Dorsal respiratory group - Answer -Sets basic automatic rhythm. Gets impulses from
peripheral chemoreceptors
Ventral respiratory group - Answer -Contains inspiratory and expiratory neurons.
Becomes active when increased ventilatory effort is required.
Pneumotaxic and apneustic centers - Answer -Located in the pons. Modifiers of
inspiratory depth and rate established by medullary centers
Increased compliance - Answer -Indicates lungs are abnormally easy to inflate and have
lost some elastic recoil
Decreased compliance - Answer -Indicates lungs are abnormally still and difficult to
inflate
Carotid and aortic bodies increased signaling to brainstem - Answer -When increased
CO2 and decreased pH is sensed
Stimulates brainstem respiratory centers - increase respirations to blowing off of CO2
(and decrease blood acidity) - Answer -When increased blood CO2 or H+ is sensed
Increase respiration - Answer -When increased CO2 or H+ is sensed, relay messages
are sent to the brainstem via CN9 and CN10 to do what?
Hering-Breuer reflex - Answer -Stretch receptors in bronchiolar or bronchial tree send
inhibitory impulses to brainstem that limit excessive inspiration
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