5. Respiratory system
exchange of gases in any biological process is termed respiration
-transporting oxygen to the cells, removing the carbon dioxide from the
cells through lungs is known as pulmonary function.
Respiration measurement
1. measure the mechanics of breathing and the physical characteristics
of the lungs(pulmonary test)
2. diffusion of gases in the lungs, the distribution of oxygen, and the
collection of carbon dioxide.
6. Lung Volumes and Capacities
-pulmonary tests are for the determination of lung volumes and
capacities
7. Tidal volume TV The volume of air inhaled & exhaled at each breath
during normal quiet breathing
Inspiratory reserve
volume
IRV The volume of air that can be forcefully inspired
following a normal quiet inspiration
Expiratory reserve
volume
ERV The volume of air that can be forcefully expired after
a normal or resting expiration
Vital capacity VC The maximum amount of air that can be exhaled after
the fullest inspiration possible (TV + ERV + IRV)
Inspiratory capacity IC The maximum amount of air that can be inhaled after
a normal exhalation (TV + IRV)
Residual volume RV The volume of air remaining in the lungs after a
forceful expiration
Total lung capacity TLC The total volume of the lungs (VC + RV)
TLC=IRV+ERV+RV
Functional residual
capacity
FRC The amount of air remaining in the lungs after a
normal quiet expiration (ERV + RV)
Static lung volume and capacities
8. Apparatus used to measure static & dynamic lung volumes/capacities using
a closed system
Registers the amount and rate of air moved into or out of the lungs
Measure
1. Volume: records the amount of air exhaled or inhaled within a
certain time
2. Flow: measures how fast the air flows in or out as the volume
of air inhaled or exhaled increases
Types
1. water
2.Dry
3.Wedge
Spirometer
10. -consists of movable bell inverted over a chamber of water. Inside the bell,
above the water line, is the breathed gas
- height above the water is proportional to the amount of gas in the bell
-A breathing tube connects the mouth of the patient with the gas under
the bell
-as the patient breathes into the tube, the bell moves up and down with
each inspiration and expiration in proportion to the amount of air
breathed in or out
- A pen attached to the bell writes on the adjacent drum
recorder(kymograph)
- As the kymograph rotates, the pen traces the breathing pattern of the
patient.
- -Bell volume-9 and 13.5 liters
- Paper speed (32,160,300,1920mm/min)
12. - The breathed air is held in a chamber enclosed by two
parallel metal pans hinged to each other along one edge.
- One of the pans contains an inlet tube is fixed to a stand
and the other swings freely with respect to it.
- The space between the two pans is enclosed by a flexible
bellows (Uke a fireplace bellows) to form the chamber.
- As air is introduced into the chamber or withdrawn from
it, the moving pan changes its position to compensate for
the volume changes.
-movement of pan is propositional to change in volume
A well-designed wedge spirometer imposes an almost
undetectable amount of air pressure on the patient's lungs.
13. Wet spirometer
-the volume of the chamber is varied by means of a lightweight
piston that moves freely in a cylinder as air is withdrawn and
replaced in breathing
-A Silastic rubber seal between the piston and the cylinder wall keeps
the chamber airtight
Broncho spirometer is a dual spirometer that measures the volumes
and capacities of each lung individually
14. spirogram
output of a spirometer is the spirogram
-The recording is read from right to left.
-inspiration moves the pen toward the bottom of the chart and
expiration toward the top.
maximal voluntary ventilation (MVV) record
15. Pulse measurements
• pulse is heart rate
• heart rate is the number of times heart beats in one minute.
- Blood volume change in any part of the body is the measure of Pulse
rate
- Plethysmograph is the Instrument used to measure the volume
change
- Plethysmography is methods for recording volume changes of an
organ or a body part
Principle of ‘true’ Plethysmograph
- It consists of rigid cup or chamber placed over the limb in which
volume change is measured
-chamber filled with fluid or air
-changes of volume in the limb due to heart beat(systole and diastole)
create a pressure changes inside the chamber.
-pressure or displacement transducer provide a signal in respond to
pressure changes within the chamber for each heart beat
16. -If the cuff is not inflated, the output signal is a sequence of pulse proportional to the
volume changes with each heartbeat
-If the cuff is inflated to a pressure just above venous pressure, arterial blood can
flow into the cuff, but venous blood cannot leave.
-Due to this the volume increases for each heartbeat by the entering of blood
during each beat.
The output slope of a line along the peaks
of these pulsations represents the overall
rate at which blood enters the limb
-after a few seconds the slope tends to
level off due to the back pressure builds up
in the limb from the accumulation of blood
that cannot escape.
Blood volume record from plethysmograph.
‘True’ Plethysmograph
17. capacitance plethysmograph
- used on either the arm or leg
- one plate of a capacitor is limb in which the volume is being measured,
other plate is a fixed screen held at a small distance from the limb
-Pulsations of the blood in the arm or leg cause variations in the capacitance,
because the distance between the limb and the fixed screen varies with these
pulsations
-capacitance measuring device is then used to obtain a continuous measure of
these variations
-capacitance can be calibrated as volume variations
18. Mercury Strain Gage Plethysmography
Strain gage is made of silicone rubber tubes, which are filled with
conductive liquid (e.g. mercury) whose resistancechanges with volume.
-For each pulse the volume of the limb increases,
-So the strain gauge elongates and increases its resistance.
since the mercury strain gage is extremely low impedance, this
necessitates the use of a low-impedance bridge to measure small
resistance variations
-The resistance variation is converted into voltage changes that can be
recorded
19. Photoelectric plethysmograph (Pulse oximetry)
volume changes in a limb result in changes in the optical density
It consists of a light source and light sensor
- light source illuminates a small area of the fingertip or other region to which
the transducer is applied.
- Photocell which is shielded from all other light, pick up the light scattered and
transmitted through the capillaries of the region
- As the capillaries fill with blood (with each pulse), the blood density
increases, thereby reducing the amount of light reaching the photocell.
- This changes resistance of the photocell that can be measured on a
Wheatstone bridge and recorded.
Drawback-1.movement artifacts
2. light source produce heat that changes the circulation
20. Impedance Plethysmography
Electrodes are attached to a segment of tissue, The resulting
impedance is measured.
As the volume of the tissue changes, in response to the pulsation of
blood (as happens in a limb) or the resistivity changes in response to
increased air in the tissue, the impedance of the tissue changes.
21. two-electrode or four-electrode system is used
- The electrodes are either conductive bands wrapped around the limb or
simple conductive strips of tape attached to the skin through electrolyte jelly
-In a two-electrode system, a constant current is forced through the tissue
between the two electrodes, and the resulting voltage changes are
measured.
-In the four-electrode system, the constant current is forced through two
outer(current)electrodes, and the voltage between the two
inner(measurement) electrodes is measured.
- The driving current is ac, square wave, (10 kHz or higher) to reduce the
effect of skin resistance.
advantage of the four-electrode system
smaller amount of current(few microampere) through the measuring
electrodes, thus reducing
the possibility of error due to changes in electrode resistance.
22. Measurement of blood flow
-Measure the blood flow in vessels
- measure the blood velocity
-rate of flow of liquid in a pipe =volume of liquid pass through
the pipe/unit time, unit-lit/min or mm/min
Blood flow meter in clinical application based on the principle
1. Electromagnetic induction
2. ultrasound transmission
3.Thermal convention
4. Radiographic principles
23. I. Magnetic Blood Flow Meters
-based on the principle of magnetic induction
-When a conductor is moved through a magnetic field, a voltage is
induced in the conductor proportional to the velocity of its motion.
- A permanent magnet positioned around the blood vessel
-it generates a magnetic field perpendicular to the direction of the
blood flow.
-The induced voltage is measured with electrodes located on opposite
sides of the blood vessel and perpendicular to the direction of the
magnetic field
25. magnetic blood flow probes
1. slip-on or C type-long time (cronic)use
- squeezing (press) blood vessel together and slipping it through
the slot of the probe.
- some probes , slots closed by plastic segment, Contact is provided
by protruding platinum disks -touch the wall of the blood vessel.
- diameter 2 to 20mm in increasing in steps of 0.5 or 1 mm
2. cannula type –
- blood flows through a cannula( thin tube inserted in to the vein)
- around this magnet is placed.
- The contacts penetrate the walls
-requires the blood vessel be cut, its ends slipped over the cannula and
secured with a suture
- used in extracorporeal devices(eg. Dialyzers) for blood flow measurement
3. cathetertip
- transducers design is catheter type-turned **inside out,''
-electromagnet located inside the catheter and electrodes outside.
26. -output voltage of a magnetic blood flow transducer is very
small(few microvolts)
- magnets are driven by alternating currents to overcome
electrode polarization and amplifier drift.
-change of magnetic field causes the transducer act like a
transformer and induces error voltages that exceed the signal levels
- amplifiers with large dynamic range and phase-sensitive detectors
are used.
-To minimize the problem, several different waveforms for the
magnet current is used
27. induced sinusoidal
voltage is 90° out of
phase with the flow
signal. the induced
voltage is partially
balanced out using a
suitable circuit,
similar to a bridge
Square wave-spikes
with extremely high
amplitude
Trapezoidal-spikes
with less amplitude
28. Block diagram of Magnetic blood flow meter
- osc-oscillator drives the magnet and provides a control signal for
gate (60 - 400 Hz)
-Gate-reverse the polarity of output signal when the flow direction
reverses
- Frequency response of the system is high to allow the recording of
flow pulse
Low pass Filter-drive the mean or average flow
29. II. Ultrasonic Blood Flow Meters
-ultrasonic energy is used to measure the velocity of flowing blood
two different ways
1. transit time ultrasonic flow meter- pulsed beam is
directed through a blood vessel at a shallow angle
- its transit time is measured.
- transit time increases if blood flow and energy transmission are in
opposite direction, and decreases when they are in same direction.
t - transit time
D - Distance between the transducers
c - Sound velocity
u - blood flow velocity
30. 2.Doppler type ultrasonic flow meter
- based on Doppler principle
-oscillator(several megahertz) excites a piezoelectric transducer(barium
titanate)
-transducer is coupled to the wall of blood vessel and sends ultrasonic
beam (frequency F) into the flowing blood
-small part of the transmitted energy is scattered back due to moving
blood cells
-and received by a second transducer opposite to the first one with
frequency F + FD or F - FD, depending on the direction of blood flow due
to Doppler effect
31. -FD (Doppler shift) is propositional to velocity of blood flow
-fraction of the transmitted energy reaches the second
transducer with the same frequency F.
-composite signal is amplified and Doppler frequency is
obtained at the output of the detector
-Doppler frequency(low Audio frequency range) is the
difference between direct and scattered frequency
components
32. Blood Flow Measurement by Thermal Convection
-hot object in a colder- flowing medium is cooled by thermal convection
The rate of cooling is proportional to the rate of the flow of the medium.
2 methods
1. thermistor in the bloodstream is kept at a constant temperature by a
servo
system.
-The electrical energy required to maintain constant temperature is a
measure of the flow rate.
2. Thermostromuhr (heat current clock) electric heater is placed between
two
thermocouples or thermistors along the axis of the vessel.
-The temperature difference between the upstream and downstream
sensor is a measure of the blood velocity.
33. Blood Flow Determination by Radiographic Methods
• Blood is not visible on an X-ray image because it has same
radio density as the surrounding tissue
Method
1. By the injection of a contrast medium(iodated organic
compound) into a blood vessel, the circulation pattern can
be made visible.
Obstructions can be detected. The blood flow in
certain blood vessels can be estimated –angiography
2. Injection of a radioactive isotope into the blood circulation
allows the detection of vascular obstructions (lung) with
an imaging device (scanner or camera)
34. Cardiac output
• Cardiac output: The amount of blood pumped by the heart
through the circulatory system(pulmonary artery and
aorta) in a minute
-Flow rate at (pulmonary artery and aorta), normal adult-
3.5 to 5 lit/min
stroke volume(amount of blood ejected during each heart
beat)=total volume of blood in circulation/cardiac output
36. 1.Indicator or Dye dilution Method
-It is a method of blood flow measurement, not blood velocity
Indicator-Any substance that mix with blood and its concentration in blood is
measured after mixing
-Concentration is measured by light absorbance with calorimeter or
radioactive isotopes
Requirements of indicator
1. substance is stable and should not be retained in the body
2. No toxic side effect
Cardio green or Indocyannine green in isotonic solution is used as dye
Principle
consider two cases
case 1-
indicator is injected in to the blood flow continuously beginning at time ‘t‘ at a
constant injection(infusion )rate ‘I’ (temperature lower than the body)
Assume the blood is circulated not recirculated
37. - Detector connected to the recorder measure the concentration from the
injection point
-after the injection the concentration increases and finally reaches a constant
value C0(unit-liter/min)
-When recirculated, indicator concentration increases in steps
Case 2
Indicator is injected as bolus(single dose)
for open system(Circulation alone)
-Concentration increases and reaches a peak P, then decays
exponentially (velocity of blood spread the bolus)
Flow F =Amount of injected indicator(B)/ Area under the
concentration curve(A)
A =
38. After Recirculation
-Concentration does not monotonically decreased , a hump R occurs.
-Finding the area under the recirculation curve is difficult by considering the
recirculation (hump)
40. 2.Thermal dilution method
• Measure the cardiac output using the temperature difference
• Cold saline(10ml) indicator is used to avoid hump problem in dye
dilution method
• Cool saline rewarm the blood rapidly
• Injection of cool saline and measurement of blood temperature
are performed by special type of catheter(Swan-Ganz catheter)
The catheter contains four separate lumens
First lumen -terminates about 30 cm from the tip
-used to inject the cooled saline
2nd
lumen-contain 2 thin wires
-temperature sensor(thermistor) is connected
3rd
lumen-at catheter tip
-pressure measurement
4th
lumen-inflate small rubber ballon at the tip the catheter
41. -Once the catheter has been inserted into a vein, the ballon is inflated and the
returning venous blood carries the catheter until its tip is positioned in the pulmonary
artery.
-The position of the catheter can be checked by measuring the pressure at its tip
-The thermistor measure the blood temperature during injection
= change of temperature
• Analog computer-gives the cardiac output directly
42. . In the thermodilution method, cold saline is
injected into the right atrium and temperature
is measured in the pulmonary artery
44. Fick’s method-
- Indicator used for the measurement of cardiac output is oxygen(O2) of the
inhaled air that is injected into blood in the lungs
Flow
Infusion rate I= consumption of O2
= difference between O2 content of the inhaled room air and O2
content of the exhaled air
-This is measured by a spirometer
-part of the oxygen is consumed in the systemic circulation and the returning venous
blood still contains some oxygen
- oxygen concentration in the returning venous blood(CV )is determined and is
subtracted from the oxygen concentration in the arterial blood leaving the
lungs(CA.)
C0=CA-CV
The arterial-venous concentration difference is measured by drawing samples through
catheters placed in an artery and in the pulmonary artery
-The measurements are averaged over several minutes to reduce the influence of
short-term fluctuations.
F= I/(CA-CV)
45. Blood pressure
Blood pressure is pressure variation from systole to diastole
-It is an indicator of the status of the cardiovascular system
When the heart contracts
• blood is forced through the arteries
• blood pressure is maximum systolic pressure
• typical value: 120 mmHg(millimetre of mercury)
When the heart muscle relaxes
• blood pressure is minimum diastolic pressure
• typical value: 80 mmHg
Systolic/diastolic
120/80 mmHg
Typically the blood pressure is quoted as 120/80 mmHg
High blood pressure(hypertension) : either of these pressures is higher
than this value
46. Blood pressure measurement method
1.Direct –invasive method
-direct pressure measurement by inserting a catheter/needle into
the artery/vein
- This is used when high degree of accuracy and dynamics response is
needed
2. Indirect-non invasive method
-pressure is measured by a cuff over the limb using korotkoff sound
47. Indirect method (auscultatory method)
-This method uses a sphygmomanometer and a stethoscope
- sphygmomanometer has pressure cuff, cuff consists of rubber
bladder inside an inelastic fabric
-cuff is inflated with a rubber bulb and deflated slowly through a
48. Principle
- cuff placed in upper arm and inflated
- the arterial blood flow into the cuff when arterial pressure exceeds
pressure in the cuff
- when the cuff is inflated, turbulence is generated in the blood
during each systole. The sounds generated by this turbulence is known
as Korotkoff sounds, can be heard through a stethoscope
49. -When the pressure in the cuff is above systolic pressure, no
sounds can be heard through the stethoscope
-The pressure in the cuff is gradually reduced and falls below
systolic pressure, first Korotkoff sounds begins
-The pressure at this point indicated in the manometer is
recorded as the systolic blood pressure.
-As the pressure of cuff continues to drop, the Korotkoff
sounds disappears at a point . This is recorded as diastolic
pressure
-Since this method uses Korotkoff sounds for locating the
systolic and diastolic pressure , this is called the as
auscultatory method
51. OSCILLOMETRIC METHOD –BLOOD PRESSURE
MEASUREMENT
Automated method of non invasive BP measurement
It has some distinct advantages over the auscultatory method
• Sound is not used during measurement
• This technique does not require a microphone or transducer in
the cuff.
52. • Principle:
• as an occluding cuff deflates from a level above the systolic
pressure, the artery walls begin to vibrate or oscillate as the blood
flows turbulently through the partially occluded artery
• these vibrations will be sensed in the transducer system
monitoring cuff pressure.
• As the pressure in the cuff further decreases, the oscillations
increase to a maximum amplitude and then decrease until the cuff
fully deflates and blood flow returns to normal.
53. The cuff pressure at the point of maximum
oscillations usually corresponds to the mean
arterial pressure.
The point above the mean pressure at which the
oscillations begin to rapidly decease in amplitude
correlates with the diastolic pressure.
56. • The oscillometric method is based on oscillometric pulses
(pressure pulses) generated in the cuff during inflation or deflation.
• Blood pressure values are determined from the locus or envelope
formed by plotting oscillometric pulses against the baseline cuff
pressure -oscillometric pulse index
• The baseline cuff pressure at which the envelope peaks (maximum
height) is generally regarded as the MAP (mean arterial pressure).
• Height-based and slope-based criteria have been used to
determine systolic and diastolic pressures.
58. Ultrasonic Doppler Shift Method of blood pressure
measurement
• designed based on the ultrasonic detection of arterial wall motion.
• The control logic in the instrument analyzes the wall motion signals
to detect the systolic and diastolic pressures and displays the
corresponding values.
• A cuff is placed on the arm , with an ultrasonic transducer on the
arm over the brachial artery.
• The cuff is inflated first to above systolic pressure and then deflated
• A low energy ultrasonic beam (less than 50 mw/cm2 ) at a
frequency of 2 MHz is transmitted into the arm.
59. • The portion of the ultrasound that is reflected by the arterial wall shifts
in frequency when the wall of the artery moves.
• Above systolic, the vessel remains closed due to the pressure of the
occluding cuff, and the monitor signals are not received.
• As the cuff pressure falls to the point where it is just overcome by the
brachial artery pressure, the artery wall snaps open.
• This opening wall movement, corresponding to the occurrence of the
first Korotkoff sound, produces a Doppler-shift which is interpreted by
logic in the instrument as systolic and displayed accordingly.
60. • With each subsequent pulse wave, a similar frequency shift is produced
until at the diastolic pressure the artery is no longer occluded.
• Its rapid motion suddenly disappears and the Doppler-shift becomes
relatively small.
• The instrument notes the sudden diminution in the amplitude of the
Doppler shift and cuff pressure at this point is displayed as diastolic
pressure.
• Special electronic circuits used in the instrument help to discriminate
against extraneous motion artefacts
67. palpatory method
- similar to auscultatory method except that the physician
identifies the flow of blood in the artery by feeling the
pulse of the patient downstream from the cuff instead of
listening for the Korotkoff sounds.
-Although systolic pressure can easily be measured by the
palpatory method, diastolic pressure is much more
difficult to identify.
68. Direct measurement
-inserting a catheter(glass tube) into the artery
Two types of catheter
1.sensor mounted on the tip of the catheter. Pressure exerted is
converted to propositional electrical signal
2. Fluid filled catheter- the pressure exerted to a fluid filled column is
transmitted to an external transducer
- Pressure transducer convert the pressure signal into electrical
signal .this electrical signal can be amplified and displayed or recorded
The tubes can be inserted by the following procedure
1. Percutaneous insertion.
2. Catheterization (vessel cutdown).
3. Implantation of a transducer in a vessel or in the heart.
71. -circuit is used for processing the electrical signal from the pressure
transducer
-transducer is excited with 5V dc from an amplitude controlled bridge
oscillator through an isolating transformer
-An operational amplifier amplifies the electrical signal corresponding to
arterial pressure
-the input stage of the operational amplifier is an differential circuit which
amplifies the pressure variation
-The gain of the amplifier is adjusted depending on the sensitivity of the
transducer
Measurement of systolic pressure
For systolic pressure measurement , conventional peak reading type
voltmeter is used.
-when a positive going pressure pulse appears at A , the diode D3 conducts
and charged C3 to the peak value of the input signal which corresponds to
the systolic pressure
- time constant R3C3 is chosen to give a steady output to the indicating
meter M1
72. Measurement of diastolic pressure
- A clamping circuit consisting of C1 and D1 is used to develop a
voltage equal to the peak to peak value of pressure pulse
- -This voltage appears across R1
- -Diode D2 would then conduct and charge capacitor C2 to the
peak value of the peak signal
- - The diastolic pressure is indicated by a second meter M2 which
shows the difference between peak systolic and the peak to peak
pulse pressure signal
- -The mean arterial pressure is read by a smoothing circuit if
needed
73. 1. If systolic and diastolic blood pressures are given as 110
mm Hg and 82 mm Hg. Calculate mean arterial pressure.
Mean Arterial Pressure = [(2 x diastolic)+systolic] /3
=[(2x110)+82]/3
=91.3mm Hg
2. Calculate the stroke volume in millilitres if the cardiac
output is 5.2 liters/minute and heart rate is 76 beats/minute.
Stroke volume=cardiac output/Number of heart beats
per minute
Stroke volume=5.2x1000/76=68.42 ml.