Cardiovascular 2 Flashcards

1
Q

How much blood does the heart produce in one day?

A

About 6000 quarts

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2
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How many times does blood go through the heart in one day?

A

1000 times

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3
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How often do the atrial cells beat?

A

60 times per minute

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4
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How often do the ventricular cells beat?

A

About 20-40 times per minute

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5
Q

What does the heart need so that it is an efficient pump?

A

A unified control system

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6
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What is the nodal system also called?

A

The intrinsic conduction system

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7
Q

What is the SA node also called?

A

Sinoatrial node

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8
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What is the SA node?

A

The most important part of the intrinsic conduction system

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9
Q

What does the SA node look like and where is it located?

A

crescent shaped node
of tissue, located in the right
atrium

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10
Q

What is the AV node also called?

A

The atrioventricular node

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11
Q

Where is the AV node located?

A

at the junction of the
atria and ventricles

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12
Q

What is the bundle of His also called?

A

Atrioventricular (AV)
bundle

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13
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Where is the bundle of His located?

A

the right and left bundle
branches located in the
interventricular septum

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14
Q

Where are the purkinje fibers?

A

spread within the
muscle of the ventricle
walls.

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15
Q

What does operation of the AV valves do?

A

This system causes heart
muscle depolarization in only
one direction, from the atria to the
ventricles.

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16
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How often does the operation of the AV valves cause the heart to contract?

A

75 beats per minute

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17
Q

What allows for the heart to beat as a coordinated unit?

A

The operation of the AV valves

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18
Q

What does ECG stand for?

A

Electrocardiography

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19
Q

What is an ECG?

A

The clinical procedure
for mapping the
electrical activity of the
heart

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20
Q

What contraction
effectively ejects blood
superiorly into the large
arteries leaving the heart?

A

The function of the AV valves, specifically the ventricles contracting

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21
Q

What do the atria do in a healthy heart?

A

They contract simultaneously

22
Q

When do the ventricles contract?

A

As the atria start to relax

23
Q

What does systole represent?

A

Contraction

24
Q

What does diastole represent?

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What does the cardiac cycle refer to?
the events of one complete heartbeat, both atria and ventricles contract and then relax
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What is the average length of this cycle?
.8 seconds
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What are the three periods during the cardiac cycle?
* Mid–to–late diastole * Ventricular systole * Early diastole
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What happens during ventricular systole? (3 things)
Ventricular contraction (systole) begins. * Pressure within the ventricles increases rapidly. * AV valves close creating the first heart sound “lub”.
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What happens during early diastole? (2 things)
Systole ends, ventricles relax. * Semilunar valves snap shut and create the second heart sound “dub”.
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What is cardiac output (CO)?
the amount of blood pumped out by each side of the heart (actually each ventricle) in one minute.
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How do you find cardiac output?
Heart rate times stroke volume
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What is normal resting heart rate?
75 bpm
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What is normal stroke volume?
70 ml per beat
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What is normal cardiac output?
5250 ml/min
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What do the blood vessels do?
The blood circulates through them
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What do the blood vessels form?
A vascular system
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What kind of transport system is the vascular system?
Closed
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How does the blood travel through the blood vessels?
As the heart beats, blood is propelled into the large arteries leaving the heart.
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What does the tunica interna line?
The lumen (cavity), the interior of the vessels
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What is the tunica interna?
thin layer of endothelium (squamous epithelial cells) resting on a scanty layer of loose connective tissue.
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What is the tunica media?
bulky middle coat made up of smooth muscle and elastic tissue.
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What do some larger arteries have?
Elastic laminae
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What is elastic laminae?
complete sheets of elastic tissue in addition to the scattered elastic fibers.
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What are capillary beds?
the tiny interweaving network of capillaries.
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What is microcirculation?
the flow of blood from an arteriole to a venule that is through a capillary bed
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What do capillary beds consist of?
Vascular shunt and true capillaries
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What are vascular shunts?
a vessel that directly connects the arteriole to the venule at opposite ends of the bed
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What do precapillary sphincters do?
surrounds the root of each true capillary and acts as a valve to regulate the flow of blood into the capillary.
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What are the two possible routes of blood flowing through a terminal arteriole?
Through the true capillaries or through the shunt
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What happens when the precapillary sphincters are relaxed (open)?
Blood flows through the true capillaries and takes part in exchanges with tissue cells
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What happens when the precapillary sphincters are contracted (closed)?
Blood flows through the shunts and bypasses the tissue cells