Anaes SAQs · Applied cardiovascular & respiratory physiology

The effects of anaesthesia on the respiratory physiology

Final SAQ — the fall of the FRC (the loss of the diaphragmatic tone, the supine, the chest-wall relaxation); the closing-capacity encroachment and the atelectasis; the reduced compliance; the inhibited hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction; and the depressed central and the peripheral drives.