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70 year old female faces symptoms of fast, shallow breathing, wet, wheezy…

- - - - these factors can definitely be inter related to the main issue
- - - - difficulty breathing
        
        if left untreated: death or respiratory failure
      - her breathing is fast due to her system ramping up her respiratory rate to get in oxygen quicker
- - - - trachea
        
        left and right bronchus
        
        bronchioles
        
        alveoli
        
        balloon shaped air sacs that exchange O2 and CO2 to and from blood.
        
        diaphragm
        
        skeletal muscle for respiration
        
        simple squamos epithelium
        
        diffusion, filtration
        
        very end of respiratory tree
        
        control airflow to alveolus
        
        simple cuboidal epithelium
        
        diffusion, secretion
        
        left and right lungs
        
        organs of gas exchange
        
        Pleurae
        
        Visceral
        
        Parietal
        
        main passage airway into lungs
        
        windpipe.
        
        pseudostratified ciliated columnar epithelium
        
        cilia, goblet cell; mucus secretion
        
        collect foreign material, debris
      - voice box
      - hyaline cartilage
        
        support, flexibility
      - cricoid cartilage
        
        give attachment to ligaments, cartilage, muscle, etc.
    - - covers larynx for swallowing
      - elastic cartilage
  - - - partial pressure
        
        pressure exerted by each gas
        
        Oxygen
        
        21%
        
        in atmosphere
        
        Carbon dioxide
        
        0.04%
        
        Nitrogen
        
        79%
      - thickness
      - surface area
  - - - lowers gas exchange in lungs
- - - - tissue cell deahs