Cardiac Muscle

Question 1

Pulmonary wede pressure is measured from

Answer 1

• Tip of Swan-Ganz catheter that after passing through right heart, is wedged in a small pulmonary artery.
• The tip is pointind downstream toward teh pulmonary capillary

Question 2

What shifts the Frank-Starling curve down and to the right

Answer 2

Increasing afterload and decreasing contractility

Question 3

EF =

Answer 3

SV/EDV

Question 4

Systolic performance is determined by

Answer 4

Preload

Contractility

Afterload

Question 5

What shifts the Frank-Starling curve up and to the left

Answer 5

Decreasing afterload and increasing contractility

Question 6

SV =

Answer 6

EDV - ESV