Block 2 Test Flashcards
Perfusion
How much blood is flowing around the Alviola where the gas exchanges occurs
Sympathetic
Your fight or flight system
Blood vessel layers
Tunica Adventita (Outer most layer), Tunica Intima (middle layer), Tunica Media (inner mist layer)
Flow of deoxygenated blood
Body-Superior/inferior vena cava-right atrium-tricuspid valve-right ventricle-pulmonary valve-pulmonary artery-lungs
Dyspnea
Shortness of breath/difficulty breathing
Hyperventilation (Panic attack)
Occurs in the absence of the other physical problems
Tuberculosis (TB)
A chronic bacterial disease that affects the lungs and is spread by cough
Parasympathetic
Subdivision of the autonomic nervous system Involved in food digestion
AV node
Controls the heart rate
Septic shock
Severe bacterial infection
Cardiogenic shock
Inadequate heart function
Obstructive shock
Mechanical obstruction of the cardiac muscle causing a decrease in cardiac output
Hepatitis A
And infectious disease of the liver spread buy food or water
CPR on children (1y/o - Onset of Puberty)
Check pass on carotid or for moral artery, 2 inch depth, 100-120 compressions per min, 30:2
Aerobic metabolism
Can only proceed in the presence of oxygen
Anaphylaxis
And extreme, life-threatening, systematic allergic reaction that may include shock and respiratory failure
Anaphylactic shock
Life-threatening allergic reaction
What disease can lie dormant in person for decades
Tuberculosis
Hepatitis B
And infectious disease of the liver spread by sexual content
Psychogenic shock (fainting)
Temporary, generalized vascular dilation
Hypoxic drive
A condition in which chronically low levels of oxygen in the blood stimulate the respiratory system
SA node
The hearts natural pacemaker
Alkalosis
The build up of excess bases in the body fluids
Chemoreceptors
Measure the levels of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and the pH of the cerebrospinal fluid