Pulmonary Gas Exchange (Paperback)

The lung receives the entire cardiac output from the right heart and must load oxygen onto and unload carbon dioxide from perfusing blood in the correct amounts to meet the metabolic needs of the body. It does so through the process of passive diffusion. Effective diffusion is accomplished by intricate parallel structures of airways and blood vessels designed to bring ventilation and perfusion together in an appropriate ratio in the same place and at the same time. Gas exchange is determined by the ventilation-perfusion ratio in each of the gas exchange units of the lung. In the normal lung ventilation and perfusion are well matched, and the ventilation-perfusion ratio is remarkably uniform among lung units, such that the partial pressure of oxygen in the blood leaving the pulmonary capillaries is less than 10 Torr lower than that in the alveolar space. In disease, the disruption to ventilation-perfusion matching and to diffusional transport may result in inefficient gas exchange and arterial hypoxemia. This volume covers the basics of pulmonary gas exchange, providing a central understanding of the processes involved, the interactions between the components upon which gas exchange depends, and basic equations of the process. Table of Contents: Introduction / Anatomy of the Gas Exchanger / Gas Carriage / Gas Exchange by Diffusion / Gas Exchange and the Matching of Ventilation and Perfusion / Evaluating Pulmonary Gas Exchange / Summary / References

General

Imprint:	Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Colloquium Series on Integrated Systems Physiology: From Molecule to Function
Release date:	August 2013
First published:	August 2013
Authors:	G.Kim Prisk • Susan R. Hopkins
Dimensions:	235 x 191 x 5mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	86
ISBN-13:	978-1-61504-450-4
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Physiology > General
LSN:	1-61504-450-7
Barcode:	9781615044504

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