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now this is actually one of the more simple
simple
uh body systems and anatomically there's
not a whole lot to this actually there's
only a few parts you can see it all
right here on the diagram
uh the organs that are included in the
respiratory tract and lungs
uh the nasal cavity nose pharynx larynx
the lungs trachea bronchi those are the
things that are going to be included in
this particular
body system it also includes the
includes the blood vessels the pulmonary
circuit the rib cage
and the muscles that allow your rib case
to expand and contract
mostly what you have in your respiratory
system are hollow pathogens
passages what they do is to exchange gases
gases
so each component of the tract has
unique growth and histological
uh structure and includes all those
now we can divide the respiratory system
up into what we call the lower
respiratory tract and the upper
respiratory tract
the upper respiratory tract are just the
passageways the air takes to go from
your nasal cavity to your larynx
the lower respiratory tract is going to
be where it actually exchanges gases
with your blood
so we're talking about your alveoli and
your lungs the vli
are little grape like clusters where
their gases are exchanged
with the blood carbon dioxide oxygen are
going to be exchanged
at this point the lungs are the places
that house them
they're spongy organs in the thoracic
cavity they're enclosed in the
boundaries of the ribcage and your diaphragm
diaphragm
and each one of those is a collection of
millions of alveoli
how many millions 150 million of you
allow that's the number actually i mean
there actually are inside there
and what they do is to expand whenever
air comes in and what's going to happen
at the alveolus is you're going to give
oxygen to your blood and take carbon
so we classify the respiratory system
based on some some zones we classify
them based on what they do
functionally into conducting and
respiratory zones the twos of the
conducting zones are just places where
the air travels whenever you inhale it
or we call that inspiring
or you exhale it or expiring majority
of the surface area of the respiratory
system is just that conducting zone
so as it comes to the conducting zone
it's filtered it's warmed and it's moistened
moistened
and this includes all the structures
from your nose all the way down the
bronchial so the
majority of this is in fact conducting zone
zone
the respiratory zone where gas exchange
occurs only little bitty structures that
are in the alveoli
so the respiratory zone is by the
surface area
very small compared to your conducting zone
now what respiration is is actually
a combination of four separate processes
this is the function
of the respiratory system and now why is
that so important because what it does
is to give our body oxygen and take away
wasteful carbon dioxide
so there are several different ways this
can occur and this all works together
pulmonary ventilation is the movement of air
air
into and out of the lungs that's the
that's that
pulmonary gastric exchange this is what
occurs in the lungs and the blood
so the gas carbon dioxide and oxygen are
be exchanged
in the lungs that carbon dioxide and
oxygen is also
transported through your blood we call
that gas transport and it makes its way to
to
your tissues tissue gas exchange is the
movement of gases
now what else does your respiratory
system do
well it also has some other functions
you have the mechanism for speech and
sound production that's how i'm talking
to you right now
what's happening is whenever you are speaking
speaking
air is being pushed across your larynx
and that's going to vibrate
your vocal cords and then that makes
this noise that you hear
that's that all right so that's how we
are able to produce sounds
you also have neurons in your
respiratory system that are responsible
for a sense of smell
we talked about that at the beginning of
the semester
and it is possible and we know this
to expel contents from the abdominal
pelvic cavity to assist with defecation
urination childbirth by increasing
pressure and thoracic cavity
you guys know about that whenever you go
to pee or poop and you go
that straining that's got a name for
it's actually called the valsivars
maneuver and that's the pushing that you
do whenever you're
defecating or even when you're having a child
child
that pushing that's called the valsivars maneuver
maneuver
so that's your thoracic cavity changes
are helping you to do that
pressure changes in the thoracic cavity
also assists with venous blood flow and
lymph transport
so you guys remember the respiratory
pump we talked about that in the in the
lymphatic chapter that's going to be
working whenever you're breathing in and
out your respiratory system also
helps you to maintain acid base balance
very very important it can be disturbed
by changes in your breathing and also
we do synthesize an enzyme involved in
the production of angiotensin
which is going to help control blood
pressure and fluid homeostasis so the
respiratory system
very very important for your life
without it you would die
and we're going to talk about how it
actually works
now the nose and nasal cavity
are the entrance way into your
respiratory system and they
have some functions that are really
important for you one thing they do
is to warm the air if the air is too
cold to hit your lungs that can
cause some very unpleasant feelings we
had that before happen
it's also humidified you don't want your
lungs to dry
out from dry air so you have to humidify
that air as it goes in
debris is also filtered antibacterial
substances are secreted so
the debris is filtered from from the air
into your lungs that way you don't catch
something that may have brought in now
around here
that's actually really important because
we have a lot of peanut dust because of
the forming around here
you also have the olfactory receptors
housed here in the nasal cavity
and this is also enhancing the resonance
of your voice so the
fact that it's got some space in there
is allowing you to throw
that's what it looks like this is a model
model
i have one of these in the lab if you
want to check it out you're more than
welcome to do that
this is the model of the nasal cavity
so the air is going to enter the nasal
cavity which is a hollow space
frame by the bone and hyaline cartilage extends
extends
uh actually between two posterior nerves
so the nares are basically your nostrils
that's what we're talking about here so
the nasal cavity is actually divided into
into
left and right portions by the nasal septum
septum
now your first discussion question
i would like you to tell me why do you
think you've got
two places where air can enter you got
two nostrils
got two sides why do you think you have
two sides
why not just have one big hole to get
more air in why is there a partition there
there
what purpose do you think that serves to
have a partition in the middle of your nose
nose
so tell me why you think that's
important for you that's your first
discussion question
now the vestibule this is the most
anterior region of the nasal cavity just
inside the nostril you got
hairs here to prevent large objects from
entering your nasal cavity
you don't want big old things coming
inside there because it could it could
really damage the inside of your nose so
the hairs are there to protect you
they do fill up with you know mucus and
things like that
and and dust and whatever and it becomes
kind of gross but that's
there on purpose to stop that stuff from
getting inside your body
now the bony projections that you have
in the nasal cavity the superior
inferior and middle conkey
these are processes of the ethmoid bone
i talked about that back in amp1
the inferior concrete fill most of the
space in the nasal cavity now what these do
do
what they're doing here is to increase
surface area
so they're allowing passageways to
funnel the air
to the right spot that way it can be
humidified and
warmed and and it won't be so cold
all right so the conchi curl around for
your passageways we call these meatuses
so superior middle and inferior nasal meatuses
meatuses
this create turbulence that rids the
dust and debris from inspired air
so basically what happens here is that
the junk you breathe in
falls out right there because you don't
want it to go down any farther
now in addition to having these concrete
you also have sinuses
that's exactly what i'm talking about
that kind of sinus stuff that's
what that's caused by perinasal sinuses
are hollow cavities within several the
bones that you have in your skull
and they're connected to the nasal past
nasal cavity by small passageways and
what they do
is to help warm the air and enhance
voice resonance and reduce the weight of
the skull
however because they are lined with
mucous membranes
bacteria can become trapped there and
infect them
we get that fairly often here in blakely
because we have
like sinus infections because we have so
many things that are in the air around here
here
so sinus infections occur quite often in
our population
because of the fact we have so much
stuff in the air
now that should explain to you the
reason why
your voice sounds funky whenever you
have a sinus infection
because the sinuses if they're clogged
they don't work properly
and then the the function of the sinuses
is to give you a voice resonance so if
it doesn't work then
the nasal cavity the vestibulus line
with stratified chromos epithelial tissue
tissue
that resists mechanical stress because
stuff's hitting it all the time you're
breathing in air every second right
you also if you have to scratch your
nose that's why you have that there
behind the vestibule it changes to a
different type of
epithelial tissue olfactory mucosa and
respiratory mucosa
the olfactory mucosa is located on the
roof of the nasal cavity and this is
where you've got
receptors for this for the sense of smell
smell
it's actually kind of funny this is the
only place in your body where neurons
actually touch the outside
so the neurons are just hanging out
there waiting for stuff to fall on them
to stimulate your sense of smell this is
the only place in your body where a
neuron actually meets the outside of
your body and this is inside the
olfactory mucosa
the rest of the nasal cavity is lined with
with
pseudostratified cylindic chlorine
epithelium sorry about bringing
bad memories from ap1 i'm sure you
remember that it was the slide with the
tall cells
that looked that they were on top of
each other but they actually weren't um
and goblet cells which are inside that
what these do
is to trap particles in mucus
so the cilia help trap particles the
mucous substrate particles and it
prevents it
from going down any further in your
nasal cavity
so we don't want this to go any we don't
want to go down our lungs
back up so this propels the mucus
towards the back nasal cavity and the pharynx
pharynx
so that we can swallow it why would you
want to do that well
you swallow that junk because
your stomach acid is very very acidic
and it will destroy most of the things
that you put in there
so you don't want your you don't want
your nasal cavity to be
filled with that stuff because you can't
breathe and does ever happen of course
listen you hear that it's happening
right now so this is the
mechanism that your body uses to try to
get rid of stuff
that could potentially become irritated
now the pharynx is the next anatomical
segment of the respiratory tract that
inspired air
enters after exiting the nasal cavity
this is on the diagram here's the first
part that starts in blue
and you've actually got three parts to
this and they're listed right here on
the picture
nasopharynx oropharynx and
laryngopharynx this
nasopharynx that means it comes from the
nose this is the part
that is going to filter air towards the
back of your throat
the oropharynx is the part that's going
to filter water or food to the back of
your throat
lorenzo pharynx is going to go towards
your larynx
now what the nasopharynx does it's lined
with pseudostratified syllable
epithelium tissue to humidify
and filter inspired air so really
the best thing for you to be doing is to
be breathing through your nose if you
can because you don't get that same
protection if you breathe through your mouth
mouth
because you don't have that same cilia
and stuff doing it now stuff you still
have some protection you got tonsils
that are going to help filter but you
don't have the protection that your
nasal cavity offers
now the nasopharynx extends from the
posterior narrows the back part of the nostrils
nostrils
to the uvula the uvula
is that little soft thing that hangs
down what that does
it moves when you swallow and it covers
your nasal cavity so when you swallow
food should only go one direction and
that should be down
it should not come the other direction
now does it ever happen
sure think about back when you were a
child and you were something was funny
and you spilled milk out your nose yes
it happens
because you're trying to breathe and
talk and chew this all at the same time
right so
stuff happens but majority of time when
we swallow that's covered
so that we don't spill that food or
water whatever it is out our nasal cavity
cavity
water does not belong there the cells
that you have there
they don't like being wet from water
that's why it burns when you get
water up your nose this should not be
now oropharynx this is the next segment
this extends from the tip of the uvula
to the epiglottis and larynx
this is filled with non-keratinized
stratified squamous epithelium
which is more protective than your nasal
cavity that's why if you get
through your nasal cavity it's
irritating if you get food right here
it's no big deal this is what it's made for
for
this is a passageway for both air and food
food
lorenzo pharynx this is the last segment
and this extends from the highway bone
to the esophagus and the anterior larynx
opens to the
longer pharynx opens to the larynx or
the voice box the posterior opens into
the esophagus
now it is at this point here that you see
see
that it is entirely possible that we
start choking
in our design the way humans are
designed these two things are
really close together and
sometimes that is a problem
because sometimes we're trying to do something
something
at the same time we're trying to eat
like talk right so what happens
is that the the epiglottis which should
be covering up your
your larynx and your trachea during eating
eating
is uncovered and food goes down the
larynx and it should not be and so
because the cells of your larynx are
specialized to take in
air when something else touches them
other than air
it triggers a violent reflex to try to
get that
out that's coughing right when it
happens in your in your
nasal cavity it's sneezing it coughing
and sneezing actually initiated by the
same thing
and what should be happening anytime you
swallow is that the
the epiglottis should be covering up
the layering so the food passage down
the esophagus
now the esophagus has got the
specialized epithelium
that way it won't be damaged by food
that's being pressed down against it
we'll talk more about that in the next chapter
chapter
actually but for now i just want you to
know that
lorenzo pharynx is that last segment
that it goes from
and the larynx or voice box this is what
what's going to house your vocal cords
you've got a couple different types of these
what they do these are these are types
of cartilage
that are going to be in and
special elastic cartilage special types
of cartilage are going to be
vibrated to be able to produce sound
that's what's happening right now
uh you've got stratified squamous
non-keratinized epithelium
protects your your larynx from
mechanical stress to vocal cords where
food and air both pass through
and you've also got pseudostratified
facilitator epithelium which is found
behind or below the vocal cords which is
to propel mucus and debris up out of the
larynx as one goes
your people do that all the time and
that's what they're doing they're
clearing their throat that's that
that's that noise
this is what it looks like again cartilages
cartilages
sections of cartilage three paired three
unpaired and six paired
provide a framework it's got to be flexible
flexible
it's flexible because if you had no flex
flexibility there then everything would
sound just like this
you would never be able to and that
would be boring right some of you
probably think i sound like that anyway
but i really don't i promise
um the cricoid thyroid and ironic
cartilages are made out of hyaline
cartilage where the roast
rest of them are made out of elastic
cartilage your vocal cords actually are
made out of elastic cartilage and what
that's doing is
is changing shape to be able to produce
different types of sounds
so if you look at it from the front side
the thyroid cartilage there's a little tip
tip
i'm going to try to circle that with the
pointers you'll see it should be circled
on there a little tip come on
there we go uh it's in red i circled it
in red on the other that's called the
laryngeal prominence
that's the tip of the thyroid cartilage
that's your adam's apple
so that's a circle there for you on the
diagram the adam's apple is
the place that we have this thyroid cartilage
cartilage
it's named thyroid cartilage because
it's near thyroid gland
the trachea also known as the windpipe
it's actually a really interesting
structure the trachea has got a lot of
cartilage in it and it goes down
past your larynx all the way down to
your lungs it's going to divide there
and take air now the trachea
has got a lot of space you see that at
the bottom here it says lumen
of trachea that's the space what the
lumen does is to provide a passageway
for air
now look see how it's nice and open and round
round
look behind and you see the esophagus
esophagus is kind of smooshy
well the reason for that is because
you do not have to be eating every second
second
you do not need to have food in your
stomach all the time so the esophagus
can push take its time pushing through
there it's not going to kill you if you
can't eat
but it is going to kill you if you don't
get oxygen to your lungs
so the trachea must be
open at all times it has to be so
what you've got around it that you don't
have around the esophagus
are these cartilaginous rings they look
kind of like c's it's kind of a c-shaped ring
ring
they're supportive but they're also flexible
flexible
so you can change the amount of air
going into your lungs by changing
the flexibility of these rings so it
allows you to
it allows you to get bigger or smaller
when a person is choked or strangled
really this person is strangled
this is closed up because they can't
they can't uh
breathe because that's closed and it's
no fun
all right uh it's certainly unpleasant um
um
but that's what's causing a person to
pass out because they don't have any
air coming in the trachea now it it
it has a elastic connective tissue and
smooth muscle which allows it
allows the esophagus to span during
swallowing so
it's not completely covered with
cartilage because you got that smooth
muscle there right next to esophagus to
allow the esophagus to get a little bigger
bigger
so that's usually why actually it is why
you don't
breathe at the same time you take a
swallow of food because
you can't really and when you do joke because
because
you're not supposed to be doing that
because it's actually two things you
should not make occurring at the same time
now the trachea the last brachial
cartilage is called the carina this is
also forms a little hook that curves
down and back to the partial rings that
surround the first branch of the
bronchial tree
it's called bronchial tree because it's
got branches again if
you get something in there that is not
supposed to be in there
like something really solid really large
inside like water
or food items it's going to try to get
that out
by violent cough reflex it's going to
contract to try to get that out
so that's why you cough
the mucosa the trachea is again lined
with pseudostratified
epithelial tissue now what they do it's
actually kind of cool
what happens you see in this picture
here at the bottom left you see these
this tracheal tissue you see the the
cartilage and you recognize that from mp1
mp1
and you see the pseudostratified
epithelial tissue you recognize that
from mp12 i'm sure
but you also see the the the
linear at the top the linear projections
those are the cilia
the cilia are going to be pushing
the uh whatever's in them back up
towards the top of your throat you'll
swallow it
that includes bacteria viruses fungal
spores whatever it catches
it's going to push that up to the top of
your larynx so you'll swallow that
instead of
breathing it down to your lungs this is
a filtering function
and what that does is to get that stuff
in there so you'll swallow it and
not breathe it in because you do not need
need
fungal spores bacteria or viruses in
your lungs
does that ever happen yeah unless
pneumonia comes into play
but we would try not to have that happen
and what will happen is that you will swallow
swallow
that and kill it instead of making you sick
once the air reaches the carina
it can be pummeled to the left or right
primary bronchus again you've got two of
these in case one of them stops working
once inside the lung each bronchus
divides into a bronchial tree and it
gets smaller and smaller and smaller eventually
eventually
now the bronchial tree becomes smaller
the cartilage changes from c-shaped
rings to complete rings
and then finally you just have these
irregular type plates now the primary
bronchi is the first place where it divides
divides
left and right branches of the carina
they didn't divide into smaller
secondary bronchi
and then there's three on the right and
two on the left this is due
because of the position of the heart so
the lungs are not
perfectly symmetrical they actually look
different on the left side they do on
the right side because of the way your
heart's facing
the secondary branchy may branch into
into about 10
smaller tertiary bronchi prolong and
continue to branch into smaller and
smaller smaller branches until finally
the bronchials are the smallest airways
and their features are different from
larger airways
they have simple cuboidal epithelial
tissue with very few cilia
if any they have enclosed within the
thick ring of the smooth muscle
and there's no hyaline cartilage what's
happening here is that air is pushing
down to them
the conducting zone the respiratory
tract ends when inspired air reaches
terminal bronchioles that means the end
terminal bronchioles branch into two or
more two or more smaller respiratory bronchioles
bronchioles
surrounded by smooth muscle the
respiratory zone
begins with respiratory bronchioles with
a vli that are budding from the wall so
they look like a bunch of grapes and
what they're doing
is they're going to be the end result of
the breathing in
from your lungs each respiratory
bronchial has
ducts which have the alveoli attached
to their wall so the sacks the uv li are
like little grapes and the inspired air
has arrived where gas exchange is going
to occur so the
alveoli are these sacs that
that's going to be the respiratory zone
this is the only part of the
of your respiratory system that actually
where gas exchange does in fact take place
so it looks like visually the air comes down
down
for terminal bronchiole it hits the
respiratory bronchial and then you start
to have this
this uh push out of for
the alveoli so the vli are small little
grape like sacs
where the air is going to be pushed through
through
now this is the pathway of air so i'd
like to review this with you so you know
exactly which direction it goes i would
like you to know this for your for your
test i'm going to ask you about it
the airway goes from the nares to the
nasal cavity
to the narrow nasopharynx oropharynx
orange pharynx
from the larynx down to the trachea it's
the primary bronchi the splits in the
secondary tertiary and finally all the
different branches of the bronchi
it goes to the bronchioles smaller
terminal bronchioles even smaller
respiratory bronchioles
to the vehicle redux and finally to the
alveolar sacs which is where it's going
to be
exchanging gases with the blood so
definitely want you to know the order
of this it's very important that you understand
understand
now when you get to the alveoli the vli
are the final destination for inspired air
air
so the air's got several things and it's
got oxygen carbon dioxide
nitrogen majority of its nitrogen and
that doesn't really do anything this
just kind of
comes in and comes out but you do have
several different types of cells that
are going to
take that inspired air one is called a
type 1 alveolar cell
these are squamous cells that account
for about 90 of the cells in the velar wall
wall
they're very thin and they allow for
rapid diffusion of gases so the thin
kind of structure there
is for diffusion you see how close the
blood vessel is to the velous
so you can get through there now they
have a very
humongous amount of surface area which
increases this gas
exchange so this is again an example of
what they look like affects what it does
type 2 alveolar cells these are smaller
cuboidal cells
and they're only about 10 of the cells
in the velar wall this is responsible for
for
surfactant surfactant is kind of an oily
greasy type
chemical that helps reduce surface
tension on alveoli
so you don't want the violets to close
up that's the last thing you want
because it could
that's what happens a person's got copd
that close up you don't want it to
happen so surfactant is there to keep
that from from occurring
you also have and there are little blue
things here
alveolar macrophages they're mobile
phagocytes means they move around
they have to have some surfactant to
meal to move around if you don't have
any surfactant they stay stationary
what they do is to clean up and digest
any debris that may display down there
does that ever happen
of course it does especially if you smoke
smoke
but if you smoke then the tar itself
covers them and they can't move around
so they can't
the lungs the lungs consist of the
alveoli and everything that's around them
them
so the right and left lungs are
separated by the heart and immediate
stein in the middle part of your chest
the lungs inferior flat base rests on
the diaphragm
while it's apex sits just below the
clavicle they're actually
really large organs so the very top of
it is right below your probably right
above your collarbone
the bottom of it actually goes really
far down into your your cavity so far
down that sometimes people think they've got
got
kidney stones or appendicitis really is
your lungs messing with you
so they're actually very large organs
the front back and lateral surfaces are in
in
contact with the rib cage we call this
the costal surfaces that means cartilage
of the rib cage
um it's in contact with mediastinum we
call this the midi style surface
and of course like all the other all the
other organs we're going to talk about
you've got a hilum a hilum is a
depression found on the media style
surface where each lung where things
like blood vessels
nerves enter the exit the lung you got
these in your kidneys you got these in
your spleen
you got several of these throughout your
your organs
and finally the left lung looks a little
different than the right lung
it's got a cardiac notch what do you
think goes in there
well this is the place where your
heart's going to fit the cardiac notch
because the heart
is facing towards the left and down
that's why you got that there you have
that there to be able to
have the place where the hearts going to
indent into that cardiac notch
each lung is divided into lobes the
right one's got three lobes the lepens
only got two lups
again that's because of the space of the
heart the right lung has got a superior
middle and inferior lobe
and you got fissures that separate each one
one
the left lung is divided into superior and
and
inferior that's it they've only got an
oblique figure so they don't look the same
same
the lungs are found within the pleural cavity
cavity
the pleural cavity is a subdivision of
thoracic cavity
and this is located between your serous
membrane you guys remember from amp-1
serous membranes
are those membranes that cover things
like the
the uh heart and lungs to be able to
keep them from smashing into each other
whenever they move
so the parietal pleura so the outer
layer of serous membranes diffuse
the the rib cage diaphragm and other structures
structures
the highland the parietal plural turns
over itself to create the inner
membrane known as the visceral pleura
visceral means organ
it's actually touching the lungs now
again the pleural membranes have this
serous fluid what we call this in the
lungs pleural fluid that spill
spills over into that area to fill them
that way that it's lubricated whenever
you expand and contract
the last thing that you possibly want is
for the lungs to become
dry because then they won't expand easy
so what the pleural cavity does the
pleural membrane is going to
secrete pleural fluid to keep them moist
that way they can continue to expand and contract
contract easily
now it's important that you understand
when we are breathing
in and out of the lungs why we're able
to actually do that
the first process of respiration of
course is pulmonary ventilation is
breathing in and out
this consists of two phases we call them
inspiration or inhalation which is
bringing air into the lungs
or expiration or exhalation move air out
now how does it work well it works
because you've got this
relationship between pressure and volume
we say that pressure and volume
are inversely proportional that means as
one goes up the other goes down
and what we're describing here is
something called boyle's law
boyle's law states that if the
temperature is constant the number of
gas molecules
the pressure and volume are inversely
related such that
as the pressure increases volume
decreases as the volume decreases the
pressure increases
so they show you a little picture here
of a syringe
and what's happening is as the volume in
the syringe
increases the pressure is going to
decrease because the molecules are not
as close together the volume is greater
when you increase the pressure volume is
decreasing because there's not much
space left in there when you do that so
this is how your lungs work
the lungs what they do they decrease the pressure
pressure
whenever you breathe in to allow
molecules to come in from the outside they
they
increase the pressure when you breathe
now pulmonary ventilation involves
volume changes
and the lungs that lead to creation of a
pressure gradient that means a difference
difference
a difference on the inside versus the
outside that gradient
is going to cause air to move in and out
of the lungs
now inspiration takes energy it takes
energy for you to breathe because
your lungs are not going to really want
to do that by themselves but
expiration does not require muscle contraction
contraction
you're just going to decrease the volume
it's going to ah right that's actually
uh fairly energy efficient so when you're
you're
breathing in your diaphragm contracts
your external intercostals contract that
takes energy but whenever you expire
it actually relaxes them so it takes a
lot less energy to do that so
fixed energy does not take energy
now how this actually works is that it's
actually quite simple
it's very very small even a very small
um difference what we have to do
is that wherever we're at on our planet
whether it be right here on the surface
or in the clouds in front of a plane or
over the mountains where we got to do
we have to counteract
the atmospheric pressure the atmospheric
pressure is the pool of gravity around
us at sea level where we're at now
it's about 760 millimeters mercury this
increases below sea level and decreases
above sea level so as we go higher in
the mountains
it's harder to to breathe because you
have to try
to get that pressure even lower so it's
harder to breathe it'd be actually
easier to breathe
below sea level um people in new orleans
probably have a really good time breathing
breathing
because they're below sea level and it's
easier for them so they can
that's why they have those parties and
hooping the hollering because
they have a lot more energy i'm just kidding
kidding
but um you have to be able to to lower
that now
you have your own pressure this is
called intrapulmonary pressure
this is the air pressure within alveoli
this rises and falls when you breathe
but it will always equalize out with
atmospheric pressure at equilibrium so
this is how you
because you're going to equalize that
pressure you also have some interpol
or pleural pressure this is that a
pressure within the pleural cavity
it rises and falls inspiration
exploration but never equalizes
this keeps your lung from collapsing so
your lung
no matter what you've got in it should
never collapse but it's about four
millimeters below
intrapulmonary pressure which keeps your
so what happens whenever you do breathe
in again you see those differences
they're just barely even noticeable
but at atmospheric pressure at sea level
760 millimeters mercury also known as
one atmosphere
uh you have to decrease the
uh pressure to be able to breathe air
in decrease it by what we'll look there just
just
two just two two millimeters mercury
that's enough
to put air into your lungs to
get it out we have to increase it well
to what oh just two more
762. so you only change about four
millimeters mercury any time you take a breath
breath
it really isn't that much it really
should never be hard hard for you to
breathe because that's such a small change
change
now at the same time if your atmospheric
pressure is lower
you have to work even harder to get it
lower that's why it's harder to breathe
as you go up the mountain or on a plane
that's going to give you those masks
if it falls out whenever your
atmospheric pressure is decreasing
in in the cavity i mean in the cabin of
the plane
because what will happen is that you
will pass out from lack of oxygen
because the pressure is
you won't really get enough so they give
you this oxygen mask to make sure you
don't pass out
from the black so if cabin pressure
cabin pressure should be about the same
as the air on the ground
uh but if it's not then you you know if
it falls to where it is actually up
up in the atmosphere which is way less
than it is at the ground then you have
to have this oxygen mass
to prevent you from passing out from
lack of oxygen
now putting it all together uh
intracellular pressure equals
atmospheric pressure between breaths
when you inspire your muscles contract
thoracic volume increases lung volume
increases pressure decreases
when you expire muscles relax
lung volume decreases pressure increases
air flows in during inspiration
now what things can actually affect
how much air we breathe in and out well
one thing is that airway resistance so
anything's in the way
like a piece of bread that you choked on or
or
a mucus from a sinus infection
those things airway resistance something
in the way is what we call airwave resistance
resistance
alveolar surface tension alveolar are
covered with a symptom of liquid
uh mainly water to create a gas water
boundary so that they don't collapse
if the surface tension in the alveolar
has changed it can
prevent you from breathing that's what
happens a person's got copd they feel
like can expand anymore
and then pulmonary compliance is your
lungs able to
stretch and and be able to actually get
larger if they're not then of course
so first one airway resistance this is
determined by airway diameter
the diameter of the bronchioles is
controlled by smooth muscle contraction
so when they relax bronchi dilation
increases the diameter of the bronchials
decreases airway resistance increases airflow
airflow
but most of the time this is what's
going to be happening whenever a person
is breathing
most of the time we won't have anything
in our way because we'll feel that but
you can actually relax and contract
the uh the bronchioles to increase or
decrease the diameter of them
and that in which case it will increase
or decrease airflow
now this is what happens when a person has
has
an asthma attack what happens when an
asthma attack occurs is that
the diameter of the airway is going to
close up
and they're not going to get any air so
that could kill them
if they pass out and they're not helped
during that time so an asthma attack
could be brought on you know stress
or uh it could be brought on by
allergens things like that can bring
bring one on um that's what's going to
happen is that you're going to constrict
your airflow and it's again it's just
it's a
reaction that occurs because some kind
alveolar surface tension is another
factor now again a gas
water boundary exists within every
alveolus where the water molecules form
hydrogen bonds
due to partial charges but the gases are
nonpolar so therefore they do not form
hydrogen bonds so what you should have
is this film of water kind of pushed out
in the side of the alveolus so what that does
does
is to make sure your vli don't push together
together
you want to keep them inflated so this
creates surface tension the
gas water boundary when i feel after
small diameter and expiration
so it keeps them from collapsing but if
you have
high up under post surface tension that
will cause your alveoli to
fold or collapse during expiration we
call that telectassis
that's what happens whenever a person's
got copd they can't
contract them anymore because they
collapse because of the amount of
surface tension surfactant is what
goes against that surfactant is lipidy
it's liquid
and it coats the cells of the velous and
prevents the water from getting together
so it hopefully it'll push the water
molecules far enough apart
to where they create a tint surface that
will allow that avila to stay
open without surfactant which is again
again damaged by cigarette smoking
your vlog will collapse so that's that's
one of the
many many many reasons why cigarette
smoking is bad for you and we're not
talking about lung cancer
this is just about alveolar surface
tension this is something that's caused
by smoking
that has nothing to do with cancer and
this is about emphysema and copd
they also cause lung cancer which can
also kill you so
if you are a smoker i implore you please
try to do something else
vaping or whatever it is you know to get
you know that stuff
it's bad for you and it is really really horrible
horrible
and uh i know it's probably hard to quit
i'm sure i've never done it but i'm sure
it's hard to quit
but there are things you can do you know
to do that
it's it's a very very very very destructive
destructive
um dangerous habit and i wish you the
best in trying to quit that
so this is what would happen if you
didn't have surfactant
you would clap your vli with surfactant
you keep it inflated
so when a person's got emphysema the
surfactant kind of goes away and the
villa surface tension is you're not able
now the next factor that affects
pulmonary gas exchange is pulmonary compliance
compliance
this is the last physical factor that
influences the effectiveness of gastric exchange
exchange
all this is basically is the ability of
the lungs in the chest wall to stretch
and this is determined by a couple of
things one the degree of alveolar
surface tension
increasing surface tension resists the
ability of the velocity to inflate
the casing compliance so if your
available surface tension is increased
then you can't we can't fluff up anymore
distance ability elastic tissue gives
the lungs ability to stretch during
inflation increases compliance
the ability of the chest wall to move
increases compliance
so if the compliance decreases and the
lungs are ex less able to expand
you can't get enough air in so any of
these things will decrease compliance
so gas exchange is going to bring new air
air
into and remove oxygen poor air from the alveoli
alveoli
carbon dioxide is the waste product of
gas exchange and you want to get rid of it
it
so during pulmonary gas exchange oxygen
diffuses in from the air in the vela to
the blood and the pulmonary capillaries
carbon dioxide flows in the opposite
direction we're going to get rid of it
now the good thing about it is that they
actually don't compete for anything
they don't form bonds together and they
don't compete for space and hemoglobin so
so
they really don't even really notice
each other if they do they bump into
children and say uh i don't know you
keep on going so they don't there's no
problem with having oxygen or carbon dioxide
dioxide
in a given place because your body does
not they don't compete for anything
which is good now the the pulmonary gas
exchange involves exchanging the gases
between the alveoli in the blood
the tissue gas exchanges occurs at the
tissues in the body's systemic
capillaries in the body's cells
so you got two places where gas exchange
occurs one's in the lungs
the others in the tissues now what we
call pulmonary gastric exchange we call
that external respiration
this is the diffusion of gases between
alveoli and the blood
now again what's happening is that
oxygen goes in as carbon dioxide goes out
out
you can see the picture here so you
breathe in oxygen that's the red in the
picture here
and it's going to leave the alveolus and go
go
into the bloodstream carbon dioxide can
leave the bloodstream and go into the alveolus
alveolus
so going opposite directions so the pressure
is what's going to drive this so as
movement with all gases the pulmonary
gastric chain is driven by pressure changes
changes
you have a lower pressure on one side of
the membrane than you do on the other one
one
so the pressure gradients is created by
the difference in partial pressures of oxygen
oxygen
and carbon dioxide between the air and
the uv light and the blood and the
pulmonary capillaries
so if you look at the two graphs here
the one in red is the oxygen
the pressure in the alveolus is great
the pressure opponent capital is low how
does air flow from high pressure to low
pressure look at the pressure carbon dioxide
dioxide
it's actually lower in the uv less it is
in the prolonged capillary so again it's
going to go from high to low
now granted not a whole lot
lower now i want you to i want you to
answer this room it tells you here that
carbon dioxide's got a low pressure
gradient but a high solubility
um why do you think that it's more important
important
to have a high pressure of oxygen here
than it is for carbon dioxide think
about what oxygen does for you how
important it is
and tell me as your second disc question question
question
why do you think right here at the at
the alveolus you have a
higher pressure of oxygen than you do
now what can actually affect the
efficiency of pulmonary gas exchange well
well
one thing is the surface area of the
um restaurant membrane you have to have
a lot of surface area to be able to get
a lot of a lot of blood in there so
the the surface area is actually large
about a thousand square feet
whereas the quantity of blood
capillaries is about 100 milliliters
so any factor that reduces surface area
decreases efficiency pulmonary gas exchange
exchange
the thickness of the respiratory membrane
membrane
which is the distance to the mass that
uh gas must
diffuse now what can change that well
normally it's thin but anything that
increases the thickness like inflammation
inflammation
will diminish gas exchange especially if
you've got
some kind of water in there where would
the water come from
well the water would come from bacteria
in your lungs from pneumonia that's why
pneumonia kills you pneumonia diminishes
your capacity to get air into your lungs
when you've got pneumonia in your lungs
you're blocking it and if you block it
you die you know i knew a woman
um gosh it was a long time ago now she
was a friend of mine
in college that died of pneumonia she's
only 29.
she died of pneumonia because
she smoked you know heavily and wasn't
able to fight off bacteria
and died of pneumonia at 29 years old so
it was
terrible now ventilation profusion matching
matching
or coupling meaning that the degree of
match between the amount of air reaching
the vehiline amount of blood flow
that's important because that needs to match
match
the changes in the vehicle ventilation
lead to changes in perfusion the blood
flow is directed to the areas with most oxygen
oxygen
if you change it then air flow is
distributed to areas with most flow
the combination of these ensures that
ventilation and perfusion match or at least
least
are a couple closely to each other so
what that means
and let me just sum that up for you that
means that
your blood is going to go
to an area that's got the most oxygen
so it can pick it up so
you'll have more in there so you don't
want to you don't want to put blood into
a tissue when there's no oxygen in that blood
blood
you want to make sure that all the all
the oxygen is is carried
correctly that's what that means and tissue
tissue
gas exchange is called internal
respiration what's happening here again
is that the partial pressures of carbon dioxide
dioxide
and oxygen are using that gradient to
diffuse in and out of the tissues
so the cells use oxygen constantly for
slow respiration so the
the partial pressure of oxygen and
tissue is low while the pressure
pressure instead of capillaries is high
and again what that does is to allow the
oxygen to go
into the tissues again from high to low
pressure so that's that's the way that
you get you get oxygen into your tissues
is that the oxygen pressure is higher in
the capillaries
than it is in the tissue cells that will
diffuse easy
now they also produce a lot of carbon
dioxide which is a waste product
partial pressure is relatively high or
it's low in systemic capillaries again
this is going to
favor the diffusion of carbon dioxide
into the tissues from the tissue from
the tissues to the capillaries
that's how you're able to push carbon
dioxide out of your tissues into the
now again there are certain factors that
will that will affect tissue gas
exchange as well
one is the surface variable available
for that
uh if it large enough to allow gastric
chains efficiently
the distance again if you have a less
distance it results in more deficient
gas exchange
some of our uh organs are actually so
far away from
tissue gas exchange they don't get very
efficient gas exchange that includes
like your skin things like that
also the perfusion the tissue the more
blood you have in it the more efficient gas
gas
exchange you have the less blood you
have in it the less
so example for example cartilage
cartilage does not have very much blood
supply therefore
cartilage does not have good profusion
therefore it takes a long time for a
tear and cartilage to heal
because you don't have any blood in
now how is how are gases transported in
our blood
well in order for pulmonary and tissue
gas exchange to occur
oxygen and carbon dioxide must undergo
chemical reactions that allow for these
poorly soluble gases to be
transported safely what does that mean
well that means that you have to find a
way to
safely transport your gases in the blood
so they don't harm you
oxygen is transported mostly bound to hemoglobin
hemoglobin
hemoglobin are proteins that have oxygen
bounds and they're bound to the iron of
the protein
and about 1.5 percent is dissolved in
blood plasma
but oxygen is very is not soluble it's
very poorly soluble
so it doesn't dissolve easily in blood
plasma so
majority of it is stuck to hemoglobin
and it's red
so my blood is red that's why mars is
red that's why breast is red
anytime iron hits oxygen it's red so
that's why you have that color
carbon dioxide there are three ways the
carbon dioxide can be
can be transported including as a
bicarbonate ion
now oxygen is transported in the blood
bound to hemoglobin hemoglobin
is a protein a very large protein that's
found in red blood cells
basically all they are just little bags
of little bags of hemoglobin
each one's got a heme group that's got
an iron atom each one of those can bind
to a molecule of oxygen each one's got
four of them so
each hemoglobin molecule can bind to
four oxygen molecules which allows you to
to
actually take a lot of oxygen through
the bloodstream to the different cells
in your body
the oxygen and iron together it's red
so the hemoglobin pigment turns the blood
blood red
oxygen is transported through the
bloodstream down the hemoglobin now
what's happening
the partial pressure of oxygen is
pushing the oxygen through
the uh tissue wall into the bloodstream
and what's happening
is that as the blood cells are going by
it's popping onto it it's hitting it
so the oxygen is binding to the
hemoglobin in which it will go
into the tissues so it travels all the
way through
and it goes to the tissues and when it
gets there
the pressure is going to change it's
going to be a higher pressure
it's going to go to lower pressure so
the pressure of oxygen is higher in the
capillary is going to diffuse off into
the tissue cells
so tissue cells have lower oxygen than
the capillaries it's going to
go the opposite direction so it's going
to pop on in the
in the alveolus to the blood to the
blood cells that's going to pop off the
blood cells
oxygen bound to hemoglobin we call that
the percent saturation
the hemoglobin saturation depends on two
things one of course is the pressure of
oxygen in both lungs and tissues if you
have a high pressure it's going to
bind to it easier or the affinity the tightness
tightness
the bond strength which hemoglobin binds
to oxygen you can
change that you can change the affinity
of hemoglobin for oxygen
one is by increasing temperature that
can change it
also increase increasing hydrogen ion
concentration that increases the ph of blood
blood
so that can also affect it so you don't
want to have a blood ph it's above or
below 7.35 7.45
if you have that then the hemoglobin's
affinity for oxygen can decrease and it
can kill you
and as tissue produce atp the partial
pressure of carbon dioxide increases
all of that can actually affect the
hemoglobin d for oxygen and result in
unloading oxygen into tissues
now carbon dioxide is transported
through the blood in different ways this is
is
completely different than oxygen now
good the good thing about this
is that it does not compete with oxygen
part of carbon dioxide about seven ten
percent of total carbon dioxide
is produced specimen metabolism is
transported dissolved in blood plasma
which is way more than oxygen oxygen's
about one percent
it's also bound to hemoglobin about 20
percent is total
bounded hemoglobin uh it doesn't bind to the
the
the heme group though it binds to the
peptide chains we call this carbomedia hemoglobin
hemoglobin
so some of it does stick to the
hemoglobin but not the same part as oxygen
oxygen
some of it's in the blood plasma now why
do you think
that the majority of it is not in blood
plasma well
think about when you have like a
coca-cola and you shake it up
what would happen if your blood did that
you had carbon dioxide well then it
would poof
you know it would it fills up we don't
do that we don't want to do that so
that's how we're able to
to uh dissolve it in plasma
now the bicarbonate ion is how most of
it's going to going to uh
effect it's going to be transported in
the blood in the form of bicarbonate ion
which is not the form of co2
and that's very important in maintaining
your ph homeostasis in your blood
how this works is that when carbon
dioxide diffuses into your blood cells
it encounters an enzyme called carbonic
anhydrase and what that does
is to catalyze this reaction carbon dioxide
dioxide
in water is going to form what we call
carbonic acid
carbonic acid then is quickly converted
into bicarbonate ion and a hydrogen ion
now here's the thing hydrogen ion by
itself is like an unruly teenager
it does not like to be told what to do
does not like to be controlled
so what you've got to do you have to be
able to
make sure that that does not get out of
hand you got to control it
so what you have to do is that the hydrogen
hydrogen
bounds to hemoglobin if you didn't do
that then it would cause your blood ph
to become very acidic it would lower it and
and
it could kill you so hemoglobin says
real change
i'm gonna smack you and it takes the
hydrogen ion says hey
hold on to that well because you have a
hydrogen ion hanging out there bound to
hemoglobin you also have a negatively
charged bicarbonate ion hanging out there
there
well when you have a negatively charged
ion that leaves the
the blood cell and goes out into the
blood plasma that creates
a balance imbalance a charge imbalance
so what happens is that chloride ions
that are present in your bloodstream
are going to shift into the blood cells
to balance out the charges we call that
a chloride shift
a change in charge like that of your
cells and expect it to be okay
because you've got to balance out the
charge otherwise you have too much
father too much negative in any place
now carbon dioxide travels through the
bloodstream mostly
again mostly in the bicarbonate ion well
what happens when it gets up to
the alveoli the carbonic acid is
reformed the hemoglobin
lets go that unruly teenager that
hydrogen ion
and it's going to reform carbonic acid
with carbonic anhydrase that's going to
then put it back into carbon dioxide and
water then it can just spit it out
so carbon dioxide that point is free to
go so
it leaves your cells as carbon dioxide
it travels in your blood is bicarbonate
then it goes back into your alveolus as
carbon dioxide where you exhale it
so you reform it isn't that cool
now how do we change that
well changes in partial pressure carbon
dioxide hydrogen ions and partial
portion of oxygen are all stimulants for ventilation
ventilation
if you change any of these things your
amount of
is going to change so the major
determinant the one that's most
important is the pressure of carbon dioxide
dioxide
i know you guys think that oh well we
breathe in because we need oxygen for
our cells
really what you're actually trying to do
is not have too much carbon dioxide
so you got to breathe in to to actually
to control that so the the
carbonic acid is determined for hydrogen
ions and therefore blood ph so the
pressure carbon dioxide is the major
determinant for the blood ph
so that's really what controls your it's
the carbon dioxide not the amount of
oxygen you need it's
that's not really what it is um
so a change in normal pattern
ventilation can have a dramatic impact
on blood
concentration of hydrogen ions the more
you breathe in
the higher oxygen content you have lower
carbon dioxide you have
lower ph so if you're hyperventilating
that's bad for you so they tell you to
breathe into a paper bag
so you won't get too much oxygen in
there because if you do that you can you can
can
so again hyperventilation increases the
amount of carbon dioxide expired from
the lungs
so what that does is cause the ph of
blood to rise it causes because
become more basic and that leads to
alkalosis which is bad for you
if your blood ph increases because of
carbon dioxide
increasing then you can have a blood ph
that can
harm you hypoventilation
meaning you decrease the amount of
breathing causes more carbonic acid to
form and less
carbon dioxide which can lead to what we
call hypoxemia
so the oxygen levels drop that causes acidosis
acidosis
your blood becomes too acidic both of
these are really bad for you because
what happens
is when you've got an increase or
decrease in blood ph
your blood starts reacting with stuff
that it shouldn't be reacting with so
the the blood does not do what it's
supposed to do the affinity for
hemoglobin is messed up and then you
can't breathe and then you die
so acidosis and alkalosis caused by hyper
hyper
hypoventilation can kill you so when
somebody's hyperventilating
they put a paper bag so they don't so any any
any any
any they won't get too much oxygen you
know so that's what they're doing with that
the way to remember kind of what's going
on hyper means
above hyperventilation means you your ph increases
increases
hypo means below your ph decreases so if
you hyperventilate your blood ph
rises if you hypoventilate your blood ph decreases
decreases
now the lower the ph the higher the
hydrogen ion concentration and vice
versa so that's what that's telling you
and again having too much hydrogen ion in your body
in your body is bad
now unfortunately unlike our hearts which we talked about already in amp2 we
which we talked about already in amp2 we we actually have to control the group of
we actually have to control the group of uh breathing with our um
uh breathing with our um our brain so you have what we call
our brain so you have what we call euphenia which is normal breathing
euphenia which is normal breathing breathing occurs without conscious
breathing occurs without conscious thought of control you
thought of control you do it even though you don't know you're
do it even though you don't know you're doing it you have to do it no matter
doing it you have to do it no matter what
what but your brain does control it it's
but your brain does control it it's controlled by
controlled by neurons down the brain stem the pontine
neurons down the brain stem the pontine respiratory group which you've got in
respiratory group which you've got in here what we call a respiratory rhythm
here what we call a respiratory rhythm generator
generator this creates basic rhythm for breathing
this creates basic rhythm for breathing in addition to that you got other things
in addition to that you got other things negative feedback loops and stretch
negative feedback loops and stretch receptors in the lungs ensure oxygen
receptors in the lungs ensure oxygen intake
intake and carbon dioxide elimination match
and carbon dioxide elimination match metabolic requirements
metabolic requirements what does that mean that means that uh
what does that mean that means that uh you are breathing in oxygen breathing
you are breathing in oxygen breathing out carbon dioxide
out carbon dioxide and if you need more of that that's
and if you need more of that that's going to tell you
going to tell you breathe harder you know sometimes you'll
breathe harder you know sometimes you'll do that sometimes you'll sit there you
do that sometimes you'll sit there you go
go like that that's because your body says
like that that's because your body says all right i need some more you're not
all right i need some more you're not giving me enough
giving me enough you're not breathing hard enough
you're not breathing hard enough now again there is some voluntary
now again there is some voluntary control or ventilation supplied by
control or ventilation supplied by cerebral cortex
cerebral cortex which can override or bypass respiratory
which can override or bypass respiratory centers what that means
centers what that means is you actually can make yourself
is you actually can make yourself breathe in more if you choose to do that
breathe in more if you choose to do that you can also make yourself stop
you can also make yourself stop breathing as
breathing as you know you can hold your breath for a
you know you can hold your breath for a little while and then eventually that
little while and then eventually that will pass over and you will
will pass over and you will have to breathe again so it's like when
have to breathe again so it's like when you're when your little boy or girl says
you're when your little boy or girl says i'm going to kill myself you don't do
i'm going to kill myself you don't do what i want i'm going to stop breathing
what i want i'm going to stop breathing good luck with that
good luck with that all right uh it ain't going to work
all right uh it ain't going to work they're going to if
they're going to if they do pass out they're going to come
they do pass out they're going to come back up you know in a moment so you
back up you know in a moment so you cannot do that
cannot do that your brain will override that so that's
your brain will override that so that's not a way to
not a way to to commit suicide it ain't going to work
to commit suicide it ain't going to work that way
now the controls again that we use for this
this cerebral cortex is voluntary control
cerebral cortex is voluntary control they also have some changes in arterial
they also have some changes in arterial concentration of hydrogen ions changes
concentration of hydrogen ions changes in
in pressure of carbon dioxide and changes
pressure of carbon dioxide and changes in pressure of oxygen
in pressure of oxygen you have that picked up by receptors
you have that picked up by receptors chemoreceptors central receptors
chemoreceptors central receptors peripheral scepters
peripheral scepters and they tell your the ponds what you
and they tell your the ponds what you see here
see here you see that the pontine respiratory
you see that the pontine respiratory groups which you look at in the picture
groups which you look at in the picture here the brain stem
here the brain stem and that's going to carry out a message
and that's going to carry out a message that tells your breathing to increase or
that tells your breathing to increase or decrease
decrease alright so i would like you to tell me
alright so i would like you to tell me what you thought was most interesting
what you thought was most interesting about this chapter as your third and
about this chapter as your third and final discussion
final discussion question
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