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Lung compliance
Compliance diagram of lungs
How do lungs adapt and why?
Tension on lung surface
Lung and chest compliance
Laplace law
Change in lung volume for each unit change in
transpulmonary pressure. = stretchiness of lungs
Air is forced into the lungs a little at a time while recording lung pressures
and volumes.
alveoli tend to collapse but they dont because of surfactant and surface tension
elastic force
Surfactant has protein + phospholipid + calcium ions
Phospholipids = dissolves unequally in fluid lining alveoli surface = decreasing
surface tension
Smaller alveoli have greater tendency to collapse.