Ventilation vs. Respiration
Counting respirations is part of taking vital signs, right? Wrong! Even though we use this terminology in textbooks, run reports, and verbal handoffs, the proper term is “ventilations”. This session discusses these two physiological processes and how they differ.
Objectives:
- define ventilation.
- define respiration.
- list three disease processes that can affect ventilation.
- list three disease processes that can affect respiration.