Cardio Overview Part 4

Question 1

What are the 2 major plasma proteins?

Answer 1

Globulin and albumin

Question 2

What is the liquid, cell-free part of blood that has been treated with anti-coagulants?

Answer 2

Plasma

Question 3

What is the liquid, cell free part of blood after coagulation, therefore devoid of clotting factors?

Answer 3

Serum

Question 4

What are common clinical blood chemistry amylases performed on?

Answer 4

Serum

Question 5

What are 2 things serum can be used to determine the concentration of?

Answer 5

Electrolytes
Cholesterol

Question 6

What is an abnormally high hematocrit that leads to high blood viscosity?

Answer 6

Polycythemia

Question 7

What makes it difficult for the heart to pump polycythemia blood?

Answer 7

Increased viscosity

Question 8

What is used to refer to any condition in which there are abnormally few RBCs in each deciliter blood?

Answer 8

Low hematocrit

Question 9

What is a condition in which there is an abnormally low hemoglobin concentration in each RBC?

Answer 9

Low MCH and/or MCHC

Question 10

What condition is low hematocrit and low MCH and/or MCHC examples of?

Answer 10

Anemia

Question 11

How does blood move through the heart and blood vessels?

Answer 11

Bulk flow

Question 12

What are the 2 sources of energy for bulk flow?

Answer 12

Perfusion pressure
Transmural pressure

Question 13

What is the pressure difference that causes blood to flow through blood vessels?

Answer 13

Perfusion pressure

Question 14

What is the pressure difference between the blood pressure inside a blood vessel and the fluid pressure in the tissue immediately outside the vessel?

Answer 14

Transmural pressure

Question 15

What mode of transport is high to low concentration or source of energy = concentration difference ?

Answer 15

Diffusion

Question 16

What transport is the following:
Major mode of transport
Occurs at capillaries
SLOW

Answer 16

Diffusion