Major components of lower respiratory tract?
Larynx
Trachea
Bronchi
Lungs
What do lower peak flow test readings indicate?
Airway narrowing or worsening asthma
Repeat 3x, highest reading recorded
Use same positioning for consistency
Avoid after eating/vigorous activity/dizzy/faint
Examples of LRTI?
Pneumonia
Bronchitis
RSV Infection
Examples of upper respiratory infection?
Asthma
Chronic
Smokers Cough
What is the Fagerstrom test?
Nicotine dependence test
3 parts of the sternum?
Manubrium
Body
Xyphoid process(ossifies at age 40)
What is between the ribs and sternum?
Costal cartilage
What articulates with ribs via superior and inferior facets?
Thoracic vertebrae
Muscles for breathing?
Diaphragm(contract for inhale)
External intercostals(contract for inhale)
Internal intercostals
Names of openings in diaphragm?
Aortic hiatus
Esopageal hiatus (also vagus nerve goes through)
Top of lungs called?
Bottom?
Apex
Base
Slits that divide lobes of lungs?
Fissures
(3 lobes on right, 2 on left)
What is in a lobule of the lung?
Wrapped in elastic connective tissue
Lymphatic vessel
Arteriole
Venule
Branch of terminal bronchiole
Entry/exit point of lymphatic and blood vessels for the lungs and kidneys?
Hilum
Fluid that reduces friction between lung membranes?
Pleural fluid
Areas between chonchae?
Meatuses
(Their arrangement increases surface area)
Fluid that reduces surface tension of alveolar fluid, made of phospholipids and lipoproteins?
Surfactant, made by type 2 pneumocyte cells
Returns oxygenated blood to the heart?
Pulmonary veins
Area of trachea that bifurcates into main bronchi?
Carina
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