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If you travel quickly from sea level to elevations above 8000 ft, where the atmospheric pressure is higher, your body could respond with symptoms of Acute Mountain Sickness. Includes headaches, dizziness, nausea, and shortness of breath.

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COPD, highlighting mainly emphysema and chronic bronchitis, is characterized by an irreversible decrease in the ability to force air out of the lungs.

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Orchestrated by 2 groups in the medulla oblongata: the Ventral Respiraoty Group (VRG) and the Dorsal Respiratory Group (DRG).

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O2- Transported by binding to hemoglobin in the RBCs or dissolving in plasma.
CO2- Transported by dissolving in plasma, chemically binding to hemoglobin, or as bicarbonate ions in plasma.

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Dalton's Law of Partial Pressure shows how a gas behaves when it is part of a mixture of gases, and Henry's Law explains how gases move into and out of a solution.

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The total amount of gas that flows into or out of the respiratory tract in 1 minute. Healthy ventilation is about 6 L/min.

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This can be measured in 2 ways: by Forced Vital Capacity and Forced Expiratory Capacity.

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This used to be done with the original tool called a Spirometer, but now is done by simply blowing into a small electronic measuring device.

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There are 4 respiratory volumes, Tidal, Inspiratory Reserve, Expiratory Reserve, and Residual.

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This law describes the relationship between pressure and volume; at constant temp., the pressure of gas varies inversely with its volume.

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Pulmonary ventilation consists of 2 phases: inspiration (air flows into lungs) and expiration (gases exit the lungs).

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AKA breathing, is simply the air moving in and out of our lungs.