Cardiovascular Review Flashcards
What does the Systolic Blood Pressure Estimate?
- Work of Heart
- Force Blood exerts against arterial walls during systole
What does Diastolic Blood Pressure indicated?
- Peripheral resistance
- Ease blood flows from arterioles in capillaries
When does Diastolic Blood Pressure occur?
- Relaxation phase of cardiac cycle
What is the mean arterial pressure?
- average force exerted by blood against wall during cardiac cycle
Describe structure of veins
- Smooth Muscle Layer
- One-way valves prevent back-flow of blood
Describe structure of arteries
- Walls contain elastic fibers/muscle fibers
- Smooth muscle layer
In Arteries, what controls blood flow to capillary beds?
- Smooth muscle fibers
Describe function of capillaries
- Blood pressure forces fluid from capillary
- Osmotic pressure within capillaries draws fluid back in
How is resistance proportional to the radius of a vessel?
- Inversely proportional to fourth power
- R = flow resistence
- R = r (radius)
- 16R = 1/2 r
What controls the diameter of a capillary?
- Precapillary sphincter
- ring smooth muscle
- encircles the capillary at origin
What provides a means for blood flow regulation within a specific tissue?
- Sphincter constriction
- Sphincter relaxation
What two factors trigger precapillary sphincter relaxation to open more capillaries?
- Driving force of increased local BP plus intrinsic neural control
- Local metabolites produced in exercise
What do capillaries feed into small veins or venules?
- Deoxygenated blood
What do veins in the lower body eventually empty into?
- Inferior Vena Cava
What is the body’s largest vein?
- Inferior Vena Cava
Where does the Vena Cave return blood to?
- Right atrium
Where does the Inferior Vena Cave return blood from?
- Abdomen
- Pelvis
- Lower Extremities
Where does blood from vessels in the head, neck, shoulders, thorax and abdominal wall flow into?
- Superior Vena Cava
Where do the superior and inferior vena cava’s join?
- The Heart
What enters the Right Atrium?
- Mixed-venous blood
What prevents blood from flowing in 2 directs in veins?
- One-way Valves
How does blood travel in veins against gravity?
- One-way valve
- Small muscular contractions
- pressure changes in thoracic cavity with breathing
- Milking propels blood back to heart
What would happen if their were no valves in veins?
- Blood would stagnate in extremities
- People would faint when standing
- Reduced venous return
- Diminished cerbral blood flow
How is blood pressure within different portions of the arterial system determined?
- Relates to total area in the section
- Resistance
What reduces total peripheral resistance during rhythmic muscle activity? Why?
What
- Vasodilation in active muscles
Why
- Enhance blood flow through peripheral vasculature
What propels blood through the vascular circuit back to the heart?
- Alternate muscle contraction/relaxation
What does increasing blood flow during steady-rate exercise rapidly do? when does it happen?
- Increases systolic blood pressure
- First few minutes
What happens to Systolic Blood Pressure as steady-rate exercise continues? Why?
What
- Declines
Why
- Arterioles in active muscles continue to dilate reducing peripheral resistance
What happens to diastolic bllod pressure during steady-rate exercise?
- Remains relatively unchanged
How does systolic blood pressure change with increasing exercise intensity?
After initial rapid rise from resting
- Increases linearly wiht intensity
What happens to diastolic blood pressure with increasing exercise intensity?
- Remains stable
- or Decreases slightly at higher levels
How high might systolic blood pressure increase in healthy individuals during maximum exercise? why?
How high:
- 200mm Hg
Why:
- Likely due to large cardiac output
What type of exercise produces higher SBP and DBP at a given VO2max, leg or arm exercise? Why?
What
- Arm
Why
-smaller arm muscle mass/vasculature offer greater resistance to blood flow
What happens following a single bout of submaximal exercise for normotensive and hypertensive individuals?
- BP temporarily falls below pre-exercise levels
- Likely due to unexplained peripheral vasodilation
How long can the hypotensive response to exercise last?
- 12 Hrs
How much O2 does the myocardium extract in the coronary vessels?
- 70-80%
What is the sole mechanism for increasing myocardial O2 supply during exercise?
- Increase coronary blood flow
What two factors increase myocardial blood flow?
- Elevated myocardial metabolism dilates coronary vessels
- Increased aortic pressure during exercise forces a proportionately greater volume of blood into coronary circulation
What does RPP stand for?
- Rate-Pressure Product
What is Rate-Pressure Product?
- Estimate of myocardial workload and VO2
How is the RPP computed?
- from product of peak SBP measured at brachial artery and HR
What is the Equation for RPP?
RPP = SBP x HR
What is the Rate-Pressure Product an index of? explain it
What
- Relative Cardiac Work
Explain
- Relates closely to directly measured myocardial VO2 and coronary blood flow in healthy subjects over a wide range of exercise intensities
What does RPP range from? what does it depend on?
- 6000 at rest
- > 40000 during exercise
- Depends on intensity/mode
What does cardiac muscle do that other tissue does not?
- Has its own rhythm
At what rate would the heart beat at if left to its own inherent rhythmicity?
100b/min
What is the sinoatrial (SA) node’s purpose?
Heart’s Pacemaker
- provides Innate stimulus of heat action
What accelerates the heart in anticipation before exercise?
- Nerves that directly supply myocardium
- chemical “messangers” that circulate in blood
What adjusts to the intensity of physical effort for heart rate?
- Nerves that directly supply myocardium
- Chemical “messengers” in blood