Help with respiratory system please!!!

[sports2245]

Is there an easy way to remember the gas exchange in the respiratory system? Are there any mnemonics for this? I know that the gas exchange takes place in the alveoli, but would like to understand it better. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

Here you go:

• http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookRESPSYS.html
  
• http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/301notes6.htm
  
• http://pennhealth.com/health_info/animationplayer/gas_exchange.html - if you click the link to see all the animations on this website you will find two other respiratory animations on breathing and the lungs
  
• http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/Internet/Anesthesiology-Elective/airway/gasexchange.cfm
  
• http://www.biology-online.org/9/14_respiration.htm
  
• http://www.merck.com/mmhe/multimedia/pul_01b.html?Ref=n&ItemId=pul_01b&RefId=x&Speed=56&Plugin=WMP&Error=Flash

[JessicaSN]

I think this website might help you:

Animation of how O2 and CO2 are exchanged at the aveoli:

http://media.pearsoncmg.com/ph/chet/chet_kozier_fundnurs_7/vid_anima/source/swf/gasexchange.swf