1. What was your Vital Capacity (VC)? What would you expect your VC to be if you inhaled a foreign object which completely obstructed the airway to your right lung?2. Analyze and describe the differences in lung capacities and minute ventilation between males and females in the class3. You are presented with a patient who has a normal alveolar tidal volume of 600ml and respiratory rate of 12 breaths per minute (you know this from a previous visit). However, she is taking shallow breaths to avoid severe pain from rib fractures. Calculate the respiratory rate needed to achieve the same minute ventilation if her tidal volume were 200ml lower than normal.Use outside sources to help with answers to the following questions4. Exposure to occupational hazards such as coal dust, silica dust, and asbestos may lead to fibrosis, or scarring of lung tissue. With this condition, the lungs become stiff. What would happen to TV and VC under these conditions?5. In severe asthma there is constriction of the airways. What would happen to TLC, TV and breathing frequency?
