Blood Pressure

Question 1

What is blood pressure

Answer 1

It Is the pressure exerted by the blood on walls of the blood vessels.

Question 2

What is the purpose of blood pressure

Answer 2

To ensure that there is a constant flow of blood carrying nutrients and oxygen to the body cells through blood vessels

Question 3

What affects blood pressure?

Answer 3

1. Strength of the heart beat

2. diameter of blood vessels

Question 4

What happens to blood pressure during a systole

Answer 4

Blood pressure rises

Question 5

What happens to blood pressure during a diastole?

Answer 5

It drops

Question 6

What is used to measure blood pressure

Answer 6

Syphgmomanometer

Question 7

How do you record blood pressure

And how is it measured

Answer 7

Systolic pressure over diastolic pressure in mm hg

Question 7

How do you record blood pressure

And how is it measured

Answer 7

Systolic pressure over diastolic pressure in mm hg

Question 8

What is a a normal blood pressure

Answer 8

120/80 mm hg

Question 9

What is the 120 mmhg

Answer 9

The systolic pressure

It is the pressure of the blood inside arteries when ventricles contract

Question 10

What is diastolic pressure

Answer 10

When ventricles relax and elastic walls of the aorta and pulmonary arteries retract keeping the pressure up on the blood