Respiratory

pH-stat and alpha-stat

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46 - 50 Physiology SBAs for the Primary FRCA

Question 46 You have just anaesthetised a patient for incision

HME Filters

Heat and Moisture Exchange

41 - 45 Physiology SBAs for the Primary FRCA

Question 41 You've just placed a Venturi mask

Airway Pressure Release Ventilation

APRV

Oxygen Transport and hypoxia

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Ventilator Associated Pneumonia

Take home messages * VAP is the most abundant ITU infection

Hyperoxia

Too much of a good thing

CO2 Handling

How the body deals with Carbon Dioxide

A-a gradient

Alveolar-arterial oxygen tension gradient and a/A ratio explained.