Respiration (physiology)

Respiration is the process of exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide between an organism and its external environment (breathing). There are several ways to dichotomize the physiology of respiration:

By species

• Aquatic respiration
• Buccal pumping

By mechanism

• Gas exchange
• Arterial blood gas
• Control of respiration
• Apnea

By experiments

• Huff and Puff Apparatus
• Respirometer
• SIFT-MS Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry
• Bell jar model lung

By disorders and emergencies

• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
• Myasthenia gravis
• Asthma
• Drowning
• Choking
• Dyspnea
• Anaphylaxis
• Pneumonia
• Severe acute respiratory syndrome
• Aspiration (medicine) – Pulmonary Edema

By medication

• Bronchodilator
• Asthma medication

By intensive care and emergency medicine

• CPR
• Mechanical ventilation
• Intubation
• Iron lung
• Intensive care medicine
• Liquid breathing
• ECMO
• Oxygen toxicity
• Medical ventilator
• Paramedic
• Life support
• General anaesthesia
• Bronchoscopy
• Laryngoscope

By other medical topics

• Respiratory therapy
• Breathing gases
• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
• Hypoxia
• Gas embolism
• Decompression sickness
• Barotrauma
• Oxygen toxicity
• Nitrogen narcosis
• Carbon dioxide poisoning
• Carbon monoxide poisoning
• HPNS
• Salt water aspiration syndrome

See also

• Wikipedia:Biology basic topics