What is the minimum liter flow that you can use with a simjple o2 mask?
You need a minimum of 5-6 liters per minute in order to flush out the patients etCO2. Some literature says 5 others say 6. I would go with caution and say 6Lpm
Which lung is most frequently affected by aspiration?
The right. The right bronchus is bigger, the angle is less steep, and there's a little ridge that partially blocks the left bronchus.
Is a lung transplant necessary for interstitial lung disease?
Not for mild interstitial lung disease. However, if it becomes severe, limiting the ability of the lung to do any useful work of breathing (oxygen in and CO2 out), then a lung transplant may be the only thing that will help.
Yes, if you somehow manage to breathe liquid nitrogen or some other refrigerant.
Different lung diseases by smoking?
(COPD) - a group of diseases including
chronic bronchitis and emphysema
including the oesophagus and larynx
Do the lungs filter warm and humidfy the air entering the body?
No, the conchae in the nasal cavity does
Is oxygen and carbon dioxide exchanged in cappillaries that surround tiny sacs called bronchi?
Almost right....the exchange takes place in the alveoli
Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless, and tasteless gas that is slightly lighter than air. It is toxic to both humans and animals.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_monoxide
Does mucus help prevent dust and dirt from entering your lungs?
The stuff is sticky and there are tiny hairs that move sheets of it towards the back of your throat and you swallow it. Mucous has a job of trapping bacteria, pollen or even insects and it tries to prevent them from entering the body.
This is quite a coincidence.
The first day I worked in the fly lab, I asked my postdoc this exact
question, and he gave the answer you suggested - that insects don't live
long enough to get cancer. However, you raise a good point. Do long-lived
insects get cancer?
It's definitely possible to cause even short-lived insects to get cancer
by mutagenizing them. The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster only lives
three weeks, but a paper came out in _Cell_ on the subject of fruit fly
cancer just last month. [1] The researchers discovered a mutant fruit fly
that spontaneously develops tumors.
So, given that some mutations can cause insects to get cancer, it should
be possible for any insect that lives long enough to develop such
mutations to get cancer. And given the large numbers of insects in, say, a
termite mound, and the number of genes that could produce uncontrolled
cell division when mutated, cancer seems not only possible, but probable.
We just don't notice a few termites more or less.
(An excellent question, by the way. Insects are excellent model systems,
and knowledge about spontaneous cancer in insects could prove extremely
useful.)
What is subcarinal adenopathy?
Subcarinal adenopathy is the enlargement of lymph nodes in a designated area of your body. It is diagnosed with an X-ray.
Is there a difference between the function of the Right lung and the left lung?
no they both do the same thing pump oxygen into your bloodstream
What is it called when the air sacs in your lungs are broken?
If by "broken" you mean not able to exchange air (CO2 and Oxygen), then the likely answer is Emphysema. The air sacs (called aveoli) are elastic-like and they inflate and collapse completely in a healthy lung. With Emphysema, they gradually lose more and more of this elasticity, and remain partly open all the time. This causes them to retain CO2 -carbon-dioxide, and therefore- allow less oxygen to be brought into the body.
Lung capacity or lung volume is the amount of air a person's lungs can hold. The average human's lungs hold 6 liters of air. Lung volume can change depending on one's altitude, age, gender, height, and activities (including sports, singing, playing woodwind instruments, etc.) among others.
What are the complications of manual ventilation?
If the manual ventilation is not performed correctly it leads to stomach inflation and thus leads to gastric regurgitation,aspiration, pneumonia.This stomach inflation may increase intra-gastric pressure, restrict lung movements, and so reduce the respiratory system compliance.
What does a crushed lung feel like?
Take a deep breath. Feel that opening and expanding in your chest? :) There, now. You're answered your own question.
Spongy, wet, and squishy. Not something you want to go around feeling.
Do pain killers affect your lungs?
A side effect of opiate analgesics is respiratory depression.
Meaning if you were to take to much of an opiate than it could cause your breathing to decrease in rate and eventually you would be unable to maintain your own airway.