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Lung is a mechanical organ

Lung is a mechanical organ. Built similar to pyramids (apex at top, base at bottom, with segments) Packaging problem (55% on R, 45% on L) Major properties are Dry Inflated. Segmental Anatomy: redundancy. Purpose of segments Prevent spread of infection

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Lung is a mechanical organ

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  1. Lung is a mechanical organ • Built similar to pyramids (apex at top, base at bottom, with segments) • Packaging problem (55% on R, 45% on L) • Major properties are • Dry • Inflated

  2. Segmental Anatomy: redundancy • Purpose of segments • Prevent spread of infection • Prevent complete obstruction from an inflated foreign body • Lobes have more than one segment (20 total) • Upper • Middle • Lower

  3. Air is distributed in proportion to segmental volume • Maintain volume similar to a submarine • Ventilation is matched to volume: regional ventilation = regional volume

  4. Move during sleep; give lungs negative pressure to prevent atelectasis: airlessness

  5. Carina: branch point in the lungs • Bronchiole tree is not symmetrical • Food must pass from front to back and air from back to front • Can be problem in the old and the young • Glottis defends the airway

  6. Larnyx: rigid, cartilagenous box • Narrowest part of the system • “V” is front: vocal cords • Vocal cords move in synchrony with diaphragm

  7. Trachea: ~ vacuum hose • Posterior is muscle, anterior is cart. Rings • Muscle allows ability to cough • Posterior utilized to expel objects: blow gun or spit wad effect

  8. COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease • Exhalation is restricted

  9. RLD: restrictive lung disease • Inhalation is restricted

  10. Air moves across a pressure gradient

  11. Muscles of inspiration (Active) • Diaphragm • External intercostals (bucket handles) • Inspiration is active

  12. Muscles of expiration (intercostals are stabilization) (usually passive): • Rectus abdominus • Obliques • Lats

  13. Diaphram originates in the chest wall and inserts on the central tendon: • Three muscles, right, left costal, and cural components • Criss-cross in the back to allow for the esphogus, vena cava, etc.

  14. Flow is swirly, not turbulent, difficult to characterize the flow in the upper airways to simplify, assume Ohms law: • Resistance (R) = change pressure/flow • Or flow = change in pressure/R

  15. Velocity (U = flow/area) • Need low pressure for inspiration: 5 cm/H2O • Inhale pressure has capacity for 120 cm/H2O • Maximal inspiratory pressure (MIP) usually occurs at FRC (functional residual capacity), low lung volumes, usually about -80 – -100 cm/H2O • MEP: occurs at high lung volumes, recoil of diaphragm (100-110 cm/H2O) • Due to length tension relationship

  16. Disease states: greater pressure for adequate flow (obstructive airway disease)

  17. Delta Vt/Delta pressure = compliance • High compliance: emphysema • Increase pressure • Increase chest wall diameter • Compress abdominal space

  18. Total Lung Capacity (TLC) determined by: • Wt, gender, age, ht • Compliance • Surfactant • Insp/expir. muscle strength

  19. Conducting airways have cartilage, lower do not: interdependent

  20. Alveoli are connected via smooth muscle and connective tissue: one opens, all open to prevent atelectasis

  21. Mucosal clearance: similar to flypaper, lubricates and protects: • Hydrates • Provides protective surface • Collect debris

  22. Goblet cells: secrete sticky, tenacious mucous

  23. Submucosal glands are less sticky, make islands

  24. Debris is moved up on islands to carinas via cillia “beating” • Clean from periphery to the central • Mucocilliary escalator

  25. Cystic Fibrosis: does not regulate sol (soluable) phase • Cillia are too deep, below the surface, cannot beat effectively, bacteria can overgrow

  26. Peripheral airways have laminar flow, allows for diffusion

  27. Alveoli have pores for gas diffusion, collateral airflow

  28. Two types of ventilation: • Pulmonary: air is brought into lungs and exchanged with air in lungs (Ve) • Alveolar: exchange of gases between alveoli and capillaries

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