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Asthma and the Long Term Affects La Porcha Stell Lone Star College Kingwood Asthma and Long Term Effects What is Asthma? Asthma is when the airway becomes obstructed and block due to inflammation and swelling. When this event occurs, it becomes very difficult for a person to breathe and very dangerous because asthma can be very life threatening if the proper care and medication is not administered in time. Asthma affects a lot of people in this world from children, Adults, and elderly; some…

reveals decreased breath sounds, dull to percussion right lower lobe. End expiratory wheeze in right lower lobe, as well as an increased anterior-posterior diameter to chest wall, no rales or rhonchi. Chest X-ray results shows hyperinflation of both lungs with an increased AP diameter. There is evidence of emphysema. Initial laboratory work reveals increased white blood cells of 15,000. Admitting orders include arterial blood gas, sputum specimen for culture, pulmonary function tests, complete…

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…

2.2 Effect of Pranayama on the Human Body Pranayama is a breathing exercise performed in yoga. There are various types of pranayama differing in frequency, rhythm, intensity and flow of breathing. One form of pranayama is alternate nose breathing. In this type of pranayama the practitioner blocks one nostril and breathes in. Switching nostrils, the practitioner breathes out from the other nostril. This process is cycled through. One such study evaluating the effects of alternate nose…

refer to a single disease but is an umbrella term for chronic lung diseases that irreversibly limits the flow of air in the lungs. CT imaging is able to perform in visualizing the effects of COPD. An advantage of CT over Lung Function Test (LFT) is that CT can differentiate between the different types of COPD, making it possible to classify the different subgroups of diseases. The below figure shows the difference in CT between lungs of a relatively healthy subject and that of a subject with…

recurrent obstruction of airflow in the pulmonary airways (Porth & Matfin, 2009). The recurrent obstruction makes it difficult for a person to breath overtime this problem occurs in the lower respiratory tract. COPD compromises the flow of air in the lungs this causes less oxygen that is being circulated between the cells, retaining an increased amount of carbon dioxide. The case study talks about R.S. who suffers from chronic bronchitis – a type of COPD – otherwise known as COPD Type B. The…

Expiratory Flow limitation which causes acute dynamic lung hyperinflation, dyspnea is increasingly implicated as the primary symptom causes exercise limitation and skeletal muscle deconditioning as a result of avoidance activity. Hyperinflation, refers to an increase in lung volume above the resting volume due to air trapping, is the crucial consequence of mechanical restriction of this…

(7) When the inspired partial pressure of oxygen is 13.3kPa, alveolar oxygen pressure is 8kPa. (7) As hypoxia continues to increase, ventilation rises expodentionally. (7) In the lungs, hypoxia acts as a vasoconstrictor in the pulmonary circulation. (7) The vasoconstriction may help with ventilation and perfusion in the lungs. (7) However, the reflex leads to pulmonary hypertension and is associated with pulmonary edema at high altitudes. (7) In regards to the heart, initially at a high…

and raising the pressure of oxygen at the tissue level. This is achieved through some alterations in the conveyment of oxygen in the blood, pulmonary ventilation, usage of oxygen at tissue level, movement of oxygen from blood to tissues and lastly lung volume and pulmonary diffusing capacity (Martin et al., 2008). Inborn lowlanders have their typical red blood cell counts alternating from 5 to 8 million per cubic millimetre in comparison to 4.5 million at low elevation (Hurtado, 1964). In…

Respiration is a process, which conducts the circulation of air between the lungs and the external environment. Two main mechanisms involved in the respiration process is the act of inspiration and expiration. Inspiration involves the inhaling of oxygen into the lungs. Expiration involves the exhalation of carbon dioxide into the external environment. Respiration is important to human body because it is a major contributor to speech. As mentioned in the paragraph above, a variety of muscles…