3/3- Blood Pressure And Blood Vessels (Exam 2) Flashcards
What is systolic pressure?
The maximal pressure in artery when left ventricle contracts
Recorded first (115/75) in mercury
What is diastolic pressure?
Minimal pressure when left ventricle relaxes
2nd number in recording (115/75) in mercury
What is laminar flow?
When you listen to an artery but here no sounds because it smooth uninterrupted flow
What is bruit?
Sounds if there is a blockage in the arteries
What is the brachial artery?
Large artery of the arm
What does it mean when the cuff blood pressure = systolic pressure?
Blood squirts through obstruction in artery and creates vibration in vessel that produces tapping sound in stethoscope
What happens when the cuff blood pressure = diastolic pressure?
Pressure in vessels holds walls open and laminar flow is reestablished
What is the sounds of korokoff?
The tapping noise you’re hearing
What is tapping?
A boom noise heard in arteries when there’s an obstruction
What is the units blood pressure is measured in?
Millimeters of mercury (mmHg)
What is hypertension?
High blood pressure
Diastolic is 90 and up
Can have a stroke
What is hypotension?
Low blood pressure
What is the pulse?
Expansion and contraction of arterior walls as you switch from systolic and diastolic pressure
What is the radial pulse?
Pulse in wrist
What is the carotid pulse?
Pulse from artery in neck
What is the femoral pulse?
Pulse near thigh in crotch region
Check for interruption of blood flow through leg
What is the pulse pressure?
Systolic pressure - diastolic pressure
Difference between the two
Creates throbbing sensation you feel
What are arterioles?
Farther from the heart
Red thread like arteries
Oxygenated blood
Systolic and diastolic pressure evens out= no pulse
What is the mean arterial pressure (MAP)?
Diastolic pressure + (pulse pressure/ 3)
Gives measure of perfusion pressure
MAP > 70 mmHg or danger of organ failure
What is perfusion pressure?
Pressure needed to push blood through capillary beds