Title: The Respiratory System
1The Respiratory System
2Pollution. What is it?
Air pollution in London
1st and Last Image
- What is it?
- What causes it?
- How does it effect us?
- What body systems does it effect?
3Air Pollution has direct links to
- Cancer
- Birth defects
- Genetic Mutations
- Asthma complications ER visits, Higher number of
cases - Pollution related premature deaths due to
breathing difficulties.
4Problems with Air Pollution
- Decrease in the Ozone layer
- Cataracts clouding of the eyes
- Skin cancer
- Lung burn
- Increase in Global Warming
- More CO2 in the ocean
- PH of Ocean increasing species death.
5- In order to see how air pollution effects the
human body we need to take a closer look at the
main system effected the respiratory system. How
it works, and what can go wrong.
6General Overview of the Respiratory system.
- General Function
- Take air from outside the body and bring it into
the lungs. - Filters
- Exchanges CO2 and O2
- Removes CO2 from the body
O2 in The lungs
7What is Respiration?
- The general process of taking air from the
outside and bringing it to the body cells - Used for cellular respiration in the
mitochondria- to make ATP
8How can pollution effect the lungs?
- Watch, take notes and see!
Pollution in the lungs
9Review How does Air get into the lungs and then
to the body?
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11The Organs of the Respiratory System
- Nose
- Made of cartilage, anchored by bone and
cartilage.- never stops growing. - Nostrils- opening which lets air through.
Problem Deviated Septum Crooked nostrils - Nostrils have hair- filters or prevents large
items from entering any further.
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13Pharynx
- Located dorsal to the Nasal Cavity but superior
to the Larynx. - Fork in the road. Shoots food down towards the
esophagus (digestive system) and shoots air down
to the trachea. - Intubation- When a patient cant breath, and is
unconscious, an endotracheal tube is inserted.
Physicians must visualize the pharynx and
intubate towards the larynx and lungs not down
the esophagus.
Intubation Clips
14The pharynx as a common pathway for food and air.
15The Larynx
- Enlarged area atop the trachea.
- Made of muscle and cartilage which is bound
together by elastic tissue. - Contains the vocal cords.
- Sound is produced when air squeezes between the
vocal cords, causes vibrations, causing sound
waves. Words are formed when the shape of the
larynx and oral cavity is changed by moving your
lips and tongue.
16Normal vocal chords to the left. Smokers vocal
chords to right.
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18The Trachea
Cilia tiny hairs Trapped particles - dust,
pollen, pollution
- AKA the Windpipe
- Flexible 2.5 cm diameter tube. Starts from below
the larynx continuing downward until it splits
into 2 bronchi. - Inner walls contain ciliated mucous membranes
which trap particles. The trapped particles are
pushed up into the pharynx for removal (cough)
19The cilia sweep the mucous trapped particles to
the nose.
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21More on the Trachea
- Made of C-shaped pieces of cartilage.
- When food enters the esophagus, it pushes against
the trachea- the soft tissue allows it to
collapse, and the C-shaped pieces of cartilage
provide enough support to prevent the trachea
from collapsing. - Try swallowing and taking a breath at the same
time. Why is this difficult?
22The Bronchial Tree
- From the trachea to the left and right lung.
- The trachea branches into the Right and Left
Primary bronchus. - Then branches into secondary and finally tertiary
bronchi ultimately leading to the bronchiole and
the Alveoli. - Alveoli are surrounded by capillaries (where gas
exchange takes place).
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25Review Quiz
Are you ready?
26How do you Breathe?
- Inspiration Diaphragm and external intercostals
contract, the size of the thoracic cavity
increases. Internal pressure 758 - Expiration Diaphragm and external intercostals
relax, the size of the thoracic cavity decreases.
Internal pressure 762. - ATM Atmospheric Pressure 760
CPR Video
Lung Sounds
27Pons and Medulla control center of breathing.
Location Brain Stem
28Read pg. 400-401
- What is The bends?
- What is Nitrogen narcosis?
- Why can scuba diving be dangerous?
- How can you minimize these dangers?
29Diseases
- Take Notes of
- Symptoms
- Observations
- Treatments
- Prognosis
30Asthma coughed up mucous plug
Better Asthma Link
31Emphysema Enlarged bubble-like air sacks.
32Emphysema Normal (L), Diseased (R)
Carbon spots from pollution.
33If you want to feel what its like to have
emphysema, try taking a deep breath and hold it.
Without letting out any air, take another deep
breath. Hold that one too. One more time, take
one more breath. Okay let it all out. That second
or third breath is what it feels like to breathe
when you have advanced emphysema. Emphysema is a
disease where you cannot exhale air. Everyone
thinks that it is a disease where you cannot
inhale but in fact it is the opposite. When you
smoke you destroy the lungs elasticity by
destroying the tissue that pulls your lung back
together after using muscles that allow us to
inhale air. So when it comes time to take your
next breath it is that much more difficult, for
your lungs could not get back to their original
shape. Imagine to live struggling each breath
like those last two breaths. Unfortunately,
millions of people don't have to imagine it, they
live it daily. It is a truly miserable way to
live and a slow painful way to die.
34Tuberculosis TB/ Consumption
Contagious, Airborne bacteria. Lives about 5
min. Antibiotics can cure. Causes lungs to
bleed, drown in your own blood.
35Compare a healthy lung (L) to a cancerous lung (R)
Carbon spots from pollution.
36Oat Cell Carcinoma no surgical cure,
infiltrates, less 5 survival .
37Asbestos Microscopic image in lung, body coats
it with Ca and Fe
38Notice the build up of scar tissue in the lower
lung and the cancerous mass.
No cure. Treatment is prevention of respiratory
illness and careful examination by X-ray for
cancer. Oxygen therapy helps as lungs loose
elasticity.
39How has pollution influenced the previous
diseases?
- Asthma
- Emphysema
- Carcinoma
- Asbestos
- TB (transferable in crowded areas, but not
associated with pollutions.) - What can you do if you are inflicted and live in
a polluted area. Monitor the AQI Air quality
index.
Pollution in the lungs
40What can be done?
- Replacement of the internal combustion engine
- Elimination of the use of fossil fuels
- The Kyoto Protocol or Kyoto Treaty
- City planning and mass transit.
- Reduced emissions from industry and auto.