Shunt Vs Dead Space
Dead space and shunt.
Shunt vs dead space. Blood flows through an area of the lung but all the alveoli are destroyed and no gas exchange occurs. Shunt is when blood instead of oxygenated alveoli gets shunted through unoxygenated. 2 points 15 days ago.
Hypoxemia will occur if there is a problem with a fresh blood supply moving past the alveoli within the pulmonary vasculature in the lungs. A pulmonary shunt refers to the passage of deoxygenated blood from the right side of the heart to the left without participation in gas exchange in the pulmonary capillaries. If there is no blood there is no life lungs are dead dead space.
Dead space shunt gas transport oxygen storage carbon dioxide. A unit with a ratio 1 0. This means that there is inadequate ventilation but adequate perfusion otherwise known as a shunt.
If the patient s sao2 doesn t go up or goes up only minimally from 80 to 83 say then it s likely a shunt. An alveolar capillary unit in which perfusion is normal but ventilation is diminished. Explain the concept of shunt and its measurement.
Original poster 1 point 15 days ago. Theoretically a unit with a ratio of 1 0. The main difference between the shunt and dead space is that shunt is the pathological condition in which the alveoli are perfused but not ventilated whereas dead space is the physiological condition in which the alveoli are ventilated but not perfused.
This means that there is adequate ventilation but inadequate perfusion otherwise known as dead space. An alveolar capillary unit in which perfusion and ventilation are normal. It is a pathological condition that results when the alveoli of the lungs are perfused with blood as normal but ventilation the supply of air fails to supply the perfused region.