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respiration

vr.tr.respiration · ACT.ACT

Let an agent route agonal or absent breathing to emergency services and CPR first, explain respiration at organismal and cellular levels from physiology sources, describe the named breathing patterns and forms, and distinguish respiration from photosynthesis, fermentation, ventilation alone and artificial respiration, without diagnosing individuals.

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Purpose and description

Let an agent route agonal or absent breathing to emergency services and CPR first, explain respiration at organismal and cellular levels from physiology sources, describe the named breathing patterns and forms, and distinguish respiration from photosynthesis, fermentation, ventilation alone and artificial respiration, without diagnosing individuals.

The biological processes of gas exchange and energy release, covering breathing or ventilation, the movement of air in and out of the lungs through nasal or mouth breathing, and cellular respiration, in which cells break down nutrients to release energy as ATP, occurring in animals, plants through plant respiration, and microbes; the registry aliases include agonal respiration, gasping breaths that are a sign of cardiac arrest, mouth breathing with nasal obstruction and enteral respiration, gas exchange through the intestine found in some fish and studied experimentally in mammals. Anyone unresponsive with gasping or abnormal breathing needs emergency services and CPR immediately.

What it is for: Obtaining oxygen and releasing energy.

It can be route abnormal breathing emergencies; explain breathing and cellular respiration; describe named forms; distinguish related processes.

Distinguishing features

Oxygen use

ATP production

Organismal and cellular levels

Emergency significance of abnormal breathing

What it looks like

Chest rising and falling in breathing; not visible at the cellular level.

Physical character

adult resting breathing rate: about 12-20 breaths per minute

ATP yield of aerobic respiration: about 30-32 ATP per glucose - modern estimates

enteral ventilation study in mammals: 2021 year - published in Med, attributed

How it is recognised

Gas exchange and cellular energy release

Agonal respiration, mouth breathing, nasal breathing, enteral respiration, plant respiration

Photosynthesis stores energy; fermentation releases energy without oxygen; ventilation is air movement alone; artificial respiration is a rescue technique

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

biological process

includes -

cellular respiration

includes - as an emergency sign

agonal respiration

is contrasted with -

photosynthesis

In practice

Families and kinds

pulmonary ventilation

cellular aerobic respiration

anaerobic respiration

plant respiration

alternative gas exchange such as enteral respiration

Standards and regulation

Resuscitation guidelines such as ERC and AHA

Clinical respiratory guidelines

Failure modes and hazards

Mistaking agonal gasping for normal breathing

Diagnosing breathing problems remotely

Confusing breathing and cellular respiration

Also called

agonal respirationmouth breathing with nasal obstructionenteral respirationnasal breathingplant respirationmouth breathingAmphibious fishcutaneous respirationobligate nasal breathingleaf respiration

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Also registered as vr.tr.respiration

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What respiration is.

Emergency first.

Definition

Definition.

Definition

Definition.

  1. Is someone unresponsive and not breathing normally or only gasping, in which case call emergency services and start CPR now? boundary
  2. What is respiration, and how does it differ from photosynthesis, fermentation, ventilation and artificial respiration? definition

Forms

Named forms.

Forms

Forms.

  1. What are agonal respiration, mouth and nasal breathing, enteral respiration and plant respiration? definition
  2. Which entry fits the specific form? action
Physiology Breathing.

Science.

Mechanics

Breathing mechanics.

Mechanics

Mechanics.

  1. How do the diaphragm and lungs move air? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Nasal breathing

Nasal versus mouth breathing.

Nasal breathing

Nasal breathing.

  1. Why is nasal breathing typical, and what causes chronic mouth breathing? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance
Cellular Cellular respiration.

Science.

Pathways

Pathways.

Pathways

Pathways.

  1. How do glycolysis, the citric acid cycle and oxidative phosphorylation release energy? provenance
  2. Which entry fits oxidative phosphorylation? action

Plants

Plant respiration.

Plants

Plants.

  1. How does plant respiration balance photosynthesis? provenance
  2. Which entry fits plant physiology? action
Context Emergencies and research.

Context.

Agonal breathing

Agonal breathing.

Agonal breathing

Agonal breathing.

  1. Why do resuscitation guidelines treat agonal breathing as a sign of cardiac arrest? provenance
  2. Which entry fits cardiopulmonary resuscitation? action

Enteral

Enteral ventilation research.

Enteral

Enteral.

  1. What have studies of enteral ventilation in animals reported, with limits noted? provenance
  2. Which entry fits loach? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should cellular respiration be a separate primary entry?
  • How should physiology sources be linked?
  • Should mouth breathing be a separate entry?