Finishing Respiration, starting excretion

Respiration review: Excretion intro
Here are the notes
And a review presentation of respiration
And a presentation of excretion

here's your format

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Clinical Exam Activity as part 1 of your Respiratory exam

Next week sometime, you'll be expected to do a clinical exam on up to 6 or 7 patients using the following: In no particular order....

1.  Blood pressure cuff. Demonstrate that you know how to use it.
2.  stethescope to listen to heart AND lung sounds check this website for lung sounds:
http://www.wilkes.med.ucla.edu/lungintro.htm
3.  Examine the oral cavity and the ear canal of your patients.  What do you notice?
4.  If you choose to order lab exams you may consider collecting samples for testing such as x-ray, blood tests or an examination of the sputum
5.  You must exhibit a professional, kind, respectful and sensitive attitude towards your patient.
6.  You have taken the patient history and considered possible diagnoses.

Your patients will have any number of respiratory illnesses that are common.  This is an open book, open notes.  You will be evaluated on the six criteria above.

Resources:
Basic symptoms, info and treatment plan for some illnesses below:
https://www.lung.ca/lung-health/lung-disease

Oral exam:
Normal:
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1080850-overview
some pictures o the oral cavity showing different conditions:
http://reference.medscape.com/features/slideshow/oral-cav#page=1

Chest X-rays
A tour through a normal, healthy chest x-ray:
http://radiologymasterclass.co.uk/tutorials/chest/chest_home_anatomy/chest_anatomy_start

Looking at x-rays of lung disease:
See the gallery on chest X-ray below:
http://radiologymasterclass.co.uk/gallery/galleries
And a second source:
http://www.radiologyassistant.nl/en/p50d95b0ab4b90/chest-x-ray-lung-disease.html

Colouring your notes

colour code our  three diagrams and write your notes in pencil on these pages.

•  the anatomy of the respiratory system
• nervous system control of breathing in and out
• Internal respiration

Respiration

Some summary notes to show your vocab for Respiration here.  You'll get a diagram worksheet for this section.  Some useful videos to go with these summary notes
An intro to respiration is below:



This video explains the role of partial pressure and also carbon dioxide concentrations to influence how RBCs pick up and drop off oxygen