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Lungs

Lungs are a pair of elastic and spongy organs that help the body breathe. They are present inside the rib cage in thoracic cavity of humans.

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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.

Can liquid in lungs freeze?

Yes, if you somehow manage to breathe liquid nitrogen or some other refrigerant.

Different lung diseases by smoking?

  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

(COPD) - a group of diseases including

chronic bronchitis and emphysema

  • Lung cancer and other cancers of the airways,

including the oesophagus and larynx

  • Asthma.

Are bronchioles found in the larynx?

No, bronchioles are found in the lungs, not the larynx.

The colorless ordorless poisonous gas in cigarette smoke that passes through the lungs and into the blood is called?

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.

Do insects get cancer?

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

Has a Chihuahua got lungs?

Yes, chihuahua's have lungs.

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.

What is lung capicity?

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.