Respiratory therapy

residual capacity and a liquid ventilator is used to generate tidal breathing with perfluorocarbon. During partial liquid ventilation, perfluorocarbon fluids are administered into the lungs to act as artificial surfactant for complications, like respiratory distress syndrome, or as a medium for other types of pulmonary dysfunction…

The respiratory system is a system that deals with how animals receive their oxygen, and not so surprisingly there are many ways different ways animals do this. Humans have an organ called the lungs which helps us inhale oxygen, but fish do not. Fish usually use gills to breathe but there are some exceptions such as the lungfish. The lungfish is one of the only types of fish that have lungs. This is why today we will compare the differences between the lungfish and human respiratory systems. We…

Many different items can be the cause of someone choking. When a person, adult or child, is choking they lose all oxygen going to the brain. When they lose all oxygen to their brain, someone needs to administer first aid as soon as possible to decrease chances of any permeant damage. The item for adults that usually causes choking is often food, but in children it is often a small object. Although there is a universal sign for choking, a victim may not always use it. If they do not have…

as large as a tennis court is exposed to a volume of air and contaminants that would fill a swimming pool1. Inhaled particulates pass through the nasal cavity where it encounters several different obstacles. As particles move deeper into the respiratory system, inhaled particles that transverse these barriers continually are filtered down to a size of 1-5 micrometers. The nasal cavity begins the filtration process. It contains physical barriers that can filter particles down to 15 mircons. The…

Interrelation between the cardiovascular system and the respiratory system The cardiovascular system and the respiratory system can interrelate to perform a function such as exercise. In order for the body to move our muscles require oxygen. While the body’s muscles are working there is a constant delivery of oxygen to the muscles. The oxygen is taken to the muscles during exercise as a result of the circulatory and respiratory systems working together. The heart, blood and the lungs are the…

swimming due to overtraining and improper body mechanics, my need to return to the sport gave me a life altering exposure to the impact of healthcare and wellness. To regain my strength and ability to swim I went through several months of physical therapy. My time working with the physical therapist made me realize that if I had only known more about my body and how it works than I most likely could have prevent the majority of the pain and suffering I had overcame. This experience also got me…

a heated, humidified, high-flow oxygen delivery system that can generate total gas flows of up to 60 L/min with an adjustable FIO2”, compared to conventional oxygen therapy (COT) for patients with hypoxemia and acute dyspnea in the emergency department was the focus of this study published in the American Association for Respiratory Care Journal (Rittayami, Tscheikuna, Praphruetkit, & Kijpinyochai, 2015). The study had two goals: (1) to evaluate the level of dyspnea after use of HFNC (2) to…

decreases progressively from wholly aquatic, to intertidal, to land species; and is greater in young crabs than in older crabs. Often the gills are enclosed in protective chambers, and ventilation is provided by specialized appendages that create the respiratory current. As in cephalopod mollusks, oxygen utilization is relatively high—up to 70 percent of the oxygen is extracted from the water passing over the gills in the European crayfish Astacus. A decrease in the partial pressure of oxygen in…

Define the pathological condition, disease or syndrome. Osteomyelitis is an infection of the bone. This can be from externally introduced bacteria fungi, parasites and viruses, or from a pathogen introduced via the blood stream from an infection of another body system (McCance and Huether, 2014). The pathogen invades the bone and elicits the inflammatory response (McCance, and Huether, 2014). For bone tissue, this includes engorged vessels, active leukocytes, thrombosis of small blood…

Inhale. Exhale. Our breath, the involuntary action of our bodies taking in air through our lungs and then expelling it, offers us the ability to live. The journey of my life has major twists and turns as well as massive hills and boulders, but it contains the daily sunset and sunrise that gives my life purpose. Although the novel, The Stranger by Albert Camus, demonstrates Monsieur Meursault’s existentialist view of no purpose in life, I find we must live our lives to the fullest and take the…