KROK 1 2012 – Question 23 · KROK (Medicine) · Physiology
A patient has a trauma of sternocleidomastoid muscle. This caused a decrease in value of the following indicator of external respiration:
- A. Residual volume
- B. Functional residual lung capacity
- C. Respiratory capacity
- D. Inspiratory reserve volume
- E. Expiratory reserve volume
Hint
Consider whether this neck muscle takes part in quiet breathing or only helps with deep, forced breaths, and which part of a spirometry record depends on such deep breaths.
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