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Respiratory Physiology

Respiratory Physiology

Exam Yield

Probability of getting 1 Question from this chapter103%

You can score upto 4 marks in this Chapter.

A relatively large but interesting chapter.

Question Pattern

This is a relatively vast and busy chapter with multiple discrete concepts.

See if you can make yourself familiar with stuff like

  • Surfactatnt
  • Compliance
  • V/Q ratio
  • PFT in different conditions
  • Lung capacities, calculation
  • O2 dissociation curve
  • Respiratory centres

Chemoreceptors has been a very high-yield area.

Recent Questions

Questions on this chapter from recent NEET and AIIMS examinations have been about

  • Where is oxygen therapy most beneficial.?
  • Hering-Breuer reflexes
  • Respiratory Centres – Overview
  • Pneumotaxic center – function
  • Calculate the alveolar ventilation
  • PFT in restrictive disease
  • Surfactant secreted by.?
  • Flow-volume graph – Overview
  • Altitude sickness – Rx
  • Brainstem Transection – Levels & Consequences
  • Decompression sickness is seen in
  • Respiratory distress syndrome is due to
  • Calculation of Compliance
  • Types of compliance
  • Lung Compliance – Overview
  • J receptor – function
  • Spirometry can measure all except
  • Intrapleural pressure – dynamics
  • Pre-Botzinger complex
  • Va/Q = infinity means
  • VQ ratio – Overview
  • Nitrogen narcosis is due to
  • Surfactant – Overview
  • Waterfall effect
  • Closing volume of the lung
  • Single breath nitrogen method is used for measuring
  • Chemoreceptors in Respiration

Suggested Revision

Following can be revised in this chapter

  • Lung volumes and capacities
  • Physiological shunt
  • Dead space – Definitions, types
  • Transpulmonary pressure
  • Respiratory adaptations in Exercise
  • Cyanosis
  • Different types of Hypoxia
  • Work of breathing – Overview
  • Bronchial innervation
  • Diffusion capacity of Lung for CO
  • Tracheobronchial Tree – Overview
  • Airway resistance
  • Cheyne-Stokes breathing
  • Changes in Emphysema
  • Oxygen dissociation curve – Overview
  • Ventilation-Perfusion Imbalance
  • Alveolar gas equation
  • Muscles of Respiration
  • Central and Peripheral Chemoreceptors – Overview
  • Lung & ACE
  • Acclimatization – Overview
  • Hysteresis -Overview