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What happens if carbon dioxide levels in your respiratory system are too high?
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You may start to feel dizzy and/or weak. Then if you don't get help or emergency attention and the level of CO2 is far higher than the oxygen level, you can pass out.
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What happens when carbon dioxide levels decrease in the atmosphere?
The atmospheric temperature will decrease
Receptors that detect carbon dioxide levels in the blood are?
Chemoreceptors detect the levels of carbon dioxide in the blood.
How do you contribute to carbon dioxide levels?
Any time you use electricity you contribute to carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, as most electricity is generated by burning fossil fuels. This also happens when you drive a vehicle, or fly in a plane.
A patient choking on a hot dog is this respiratory acidosis or respiratory alkalosis?
This is respiratory acidosis. The patient will be unable to perform proper gas exchange due to the obstruction (food). As a result, the carbon dioxide levels will rise, and the pH will drop.
What are the levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide just prior to the beginning of the industrial age in the mid-1700s and in 2004?
In the mid-1700s the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere were about 280 ppm (parts per million).In 2004 the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere were about 375 ppm.In 2012 the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere were about 393 ppm.
What has the greatest stimulation on the respiratory center in the brain?
blood carbon dioxide levels
What does hypercarbic respiratory failure?
Acute respiratory failure with high carbon dioxide levels
How are oxygen and carbon dioxide levels maintained?
Respiratory system
Levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood trigger the respiratory center?
Primarily it is the cabon dioxide levels that trigger respiratory drive, however in some disease states such as COPD increased oxygen levels can decrease respiratory drive.
What organ system maintains oxygen and carbon dioxide levels?
Respiratory system
What happens to the carbon dioxide produced by your body during the period of apnea?
Carbon dioxide levels increas
What happens to the blood concentration level of carbon dioxide following increased breathing?
With increased breathing, levels of carbon dioxide in the blood drop and levels of oxygen rise.
What blood level is most significant in regulating the respiratory center of mammals?
The levels of carbon dioxide in the body are monitored by chemoreceptors, (they do this by measuring pH - lower pH means more carbon dioxide). If the levels of carbon dioxide are too high then the respiratory centre of the brain (in the medulla oblongatis) sends signals to the lungs and diaphragm to increase the breathing rate.
What happens to temperatures when carbon dioxide levels decrease?
You become a human popsicle
What happens when carbon dioxide levels decrease in the atmosphere?
The atmospheric temperature will decrease
What happens to the levels of carbon dioxide and water during aerobic exercise compared to their levels when the performer is at rest?
eutrophication
Does the CNS respiration center analyze oxygen levels of blood?
Oxygen is very sparingly soluble. Carbon dioxide is highly soluble in water or plasma. The respiratory center is stimulated by high level of the carbon dioxide. The respiratory center probably does not analyse the oxygen level.
