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Chapter 25 - Thermoregulation Flashcards

1
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What is the average core temperature?

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36-37.8C

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How much does metabolism rise in elite athletes during intense aerobic exercise?

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  • 20-25 above resting levels
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What does the increase in metabolism during intense exercise do regarding thermoregulation?

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  • increases core temperature
  • Most of metabolisms results in heat production
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What is the O2 consumption at rest?

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0.25L/min

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What is the O2 consumption during maximal exercise?

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5L/min

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How does heat loss occur in the body?

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  • Radiation
  • Conduction
  • Convection
  • Evaporation
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7
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How is heat gained in the body?

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  • Basal Metabolic Rate
  • Muscular Activity
  • Hormones
  • Thermic Effect of Food
  • Postural Changes
  • Environment
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What does conduction heat exchange involve?

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  • Direct heat transfer from one molecule to another through a liquid, solid, or gas
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9
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How does conduction contribute to a small amount of heat loss in the body?

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  • Directly through deep tissues to cooler surface
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What does the rate conductive heat loss depend on?

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  • Temperature gradient between the skin and surrounding temperature
  • Thermal qualities of the surface
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What does convection heat exchange involve?

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  • Transferring heat by motion of gas or liquid across a heated surface
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How does heat loss occur with convection?

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  • Air moves around us, passes over the skin, heat is exchanged with the air molecules.
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What contributes to the rate of heat exchange by convection?

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The greater the movement, the greater the rate

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14
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What do all objects continually emit?

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  • Electromagnetic heat waves or radiant energy
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What are the primary methods for eliminating body heat during rest?

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  • Radiation and Convection
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Describe Radiation

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  • Emission of electromagnetic heat waves or radiant energy
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17
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What is the primary avenue for heat dissipation during exercise?

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  • Evaporation
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18
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What happens when a fluid evaporates and turns into a gaseous form?

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  • Heat is lost (because its required)
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19
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What three factors influence the total amount of sweat vaporized from the skin and pulmonary surfaces?

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  • Surface exposure to the environment
  • Temperature and relative humidity of the ambient air
  • Convection air currents about the body
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How does the body gain heat from radiation?

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  • Sky
  • Solar
  • Ground
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How does the body lose heat from radiation?

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  • From the body
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22
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How does the body lose heat through evaporation?

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  • Respiratory
  • Sweat
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23
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How does the body lose heat through convection?

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  • Muscle blood flow convection
  • Skin/Blood convection
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24
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How does the body lose heat through conduction?

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  • Skin to surrounding area
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25
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What range of body temperature change can the human body tolerate?

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  • Decline of 10C
  • Increase of 5C
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26
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What plays a primary role in the balance of body temperature?

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  • Hypothalamus
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27
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What provides input to the central control center for temperature regulations?

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  • Thermal receptors in the skin
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28
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What is the water vapor pressure gradient?

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  • Difference between water vapor pressure on skin and in air
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29
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What is the heat produced in muscles an example of?

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  • Conduction
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30
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What is the heat transported in the blood and example of?

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  • Convection
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31
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Where are the central receptors located?

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  • Hypothalamus
  • Other brain regions
  • Spinal Cord
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32
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What are central receptors sensitive to?

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  • Blood temperature changes as small as 0.01C
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33
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What triggers the hypothalamus reflexes that conserve or eliminate body heat?

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  • Very small changes in temperature changes of the blood passing through the hypothalamus
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34
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What happens at rest in the heat, regarding heat regulation?

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  • Increase HR and Cardiac Output
  • Superficial and Venous Blood vessels dilate
  • Warm blood diverted to skin
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35
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What are the two competitive cardiovascular demands during exercise in heat?

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  • Muscles require oxygen to sustain energy metabolism
  • Arterial blood that diverts to the periphery to cool the body cannot deliver its oxygen to active muscle
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36
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What happens to cardiac output during extreme heat stress?

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  • 15-25% passes through the skin
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37
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What happens to stroke volume and heart rate at submaximal exercise in heat?

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  • Lower Stroke Volume
  • Higher Heart Rate
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38
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What happens to cardiac output during submaximal exercise in heat?

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Maximal Decrease
- Rise in HR does not offset drop in stroke volume

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39
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What circulatory adjustments during exercise in heat lead to increased blood lactate accumulation?

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  • Decreased lactate uptake by the liver from reduced hepatic blood flow
  • Less muscle catabolism of circulating lactate because heat dissipation diverts cardiac output to the periphery
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40
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What does sweat do for hydration and electrolyte saturation in the body?

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  • Reduces both
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41
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What does a single bout of activity in heat do to aldosterone?

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  • Stimulates its release
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42
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What does aldosterone do?

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  • act on renal tubules
  • Increase sodium reabosorption
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43
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What is aldosterone?

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  • Sodium-conserving hormone
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44
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What is vasopressin?

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  • Antiduretic hormone
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45
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What does exercise in heat do to vasopressin?

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  • stimulates release
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46
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Where is vasopressin released from?

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  • Hypothalamus
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47
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What does vasopressin do?

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  • Increases permeability of collecting tubules of kidneys
  • facilitate fluid retention
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48
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Describe the pathway of fluid loss and retention during exercise

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  • Muscular activity promotes sweating which causes loss of blood plasma, resulting in hemoconcentration and increased blood osmolality.
  • Increased blood osmolarity stimulates osmoreceptors in the hypothalamus which sends a neural signal to the posterior pituitary gland.
  • The posterior pituitary gland secretes ADH into blood which acts on the kidneys, increasing water permeability of the renal tubules and collecting ducts.
  • Leads to increased reabsorption of water and decreased urine output aids in minimizing body fluid loss.
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49
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How much sweat does moderate exercise for an hour produce?

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  • 0.5-1L sweat loss
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50
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What places a demand on fluid reserves? what can it lead to?

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Evaporative Cooling
- Lead to dehydration

51
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What are the 5 factors that coincide with fluid loss?

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  • Lower plasma volume
  • Depressed skin blood flow for a given core temperature
  • Reduced Stroke Volume
  • Increased Heart Rate
  • General Deterioration in Circulatory and Thermoregulatory efficiency in exercise
52
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What does ingesting fluid during exercise do?

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  • Increases blood flow to the skin for effective cooling
53
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What does fluid replacement during exercise need to focus on?

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  • Maintaining plasma volume
  • Optimal circulation and sweating
54
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What provides the most effective defense against heat stress?

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  • Adequate hydration
55
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What is hyperhydration?

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  • Ingesting extra water
56
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Why might hyperhydration be beneficial before exercise in heat?

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  • Offers thermoregulatory protection
57
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What are 3 practical ways to promote acute pre-exercise hyperhydration?

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  • Consume 500mL H2O before sleeping
  • Consume 500mL upon awakening
  • Consume 500mL of cold water 20 min before exercise
58
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What do changes in body weight following exercise indicate?

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  • Water loss
  • Adequacy of rehydration
59
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What are ideal conditions for rehydration?

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  • Intake matches outtake
  • Water intake equal rate to loss through sweat
60
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What does each pound of weight lost represent?

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  • 450mL dehydration
61
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How can you recover electrolytes lost during exercise through sweat?

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  • Add them to rehydration drink
62
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What does the american college of sport medicine recommend for consuming sports drinks?

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  • 0.5-0.7g Na/L of fluid during exercise
63
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What is urine volume inversely related to?

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  • Beverage’s sodium content
64
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What does a modest rise in core temperature during exercise represent?

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  • Favourable adjustment that optimizes physiologic and metabolic functions
65
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What 5 factors interact to improve physiologic adjustment and exercise tolerance during environmental heat stress?

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  • Acclimatization
  • Training Status
  • Age
  • Gender
  • Body Fat Level
66
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What does repeated exposure to hot environments when combined with physical activity do?

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  • Improves exercise capacity with less discomfort upon subsequent heat exposure
67
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What does the term heat acclimatization describe?

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  • Collective physiologic adaptations that improve heat tolerance
68
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When does a major portion of heat acclimatization occur?

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  • First week of heat exposure
69
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What are the heat acclimatization responses? (8)

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  • Improve Cutaneous Blood Flow
  • Effective distribution of Cardiac Output
  • Lowered Threshold for start of sweating
  • More effective distribution of sweat over skin surface
  • Increased sweat output
  • Lower salt concentration of sweat
  • Lower skin and core temp and HR for standard exercise
  • Less reliance on carbs during exercise
70
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What is the effect of the heat acclimatization response: improved cutaneous blood flow?

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  • Transports metabolic heat from deep tissue (core) to shell
71
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What is the effect of the heat acclimatization response: Effective distribution of cardiac output?

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  • Appropriate ciruclation to skin and muscles to meet demand of metabolism and thermoregulation
  • Greater blood pressure stability during exercise
72
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What is the effect of the heat acclimatization response: Lowered Threshold for start of sweating?

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  • Evaporative cooling begins early in exercise
73
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What is the effect of the heat acclimatization response: More effective distribution of sweat over skin surface?

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  • Optimum use of effective body surface for evaporative cooling
74
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What is the effect of the heat acclimatization response: Increased sweat output?

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  • Maximizes evaporative cooling
75
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What is the effect of the heat acclimatization response: Lower salt concentration of sweat?

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  • Dilute sweat preserves electrolytes in extracellular fluid
76
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What is the effect of the heat acclimatization response: Lower skin and core temperature and heart rate for standard exercise?

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  • Frees greater proportion of cardiac output to active muscles
77
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What is the effect of the heat acclimatization response: Less reliance on carbohydrate catabolism during exercise?

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  • Carbohydrate sparing
78
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How do trained individuals living in temperate climates respond to severe heat compared to sedentary counterparts?

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  • More effectively
79
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What does training do for heat managment?

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  • Increases sensitivity and capacity of the sweat response
  • Sweating begins at a lower temperature
80
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how do trained individuals differ from sedentary individuals regarding cutaneous blood flow?

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  • Greater cutaneous blood flow at given internal temperature
  • Greater cutaneous blood flow at given percentage of VO2max
81
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Are there age-related decrements in thermoregulation for marathon runners?

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  • NO
82
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Who has more heat-activated sweat glands per unit skin area, children or adults?

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  • Children
83
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What do children do compared to adults regarding thermoregulation?

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  • Sweat less
  • Maintain higher core temperature
84
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What are the recommendations for children regarding physical activity in high temperatures?

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  • Intensity of effort decreased
  • Longer duration for acclimatization
85
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Who sweats more, men or women?

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  • Men
86
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What do women typically have that helps them with thermoregulation? How?

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Smaller, relatively larger body surface area per unit mass
- Favours greater heat dissipation through circulatory mechanisms

87
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What does excess body fat represent regarding thermoregulation?

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  • Liability when exercising in heat
88
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How does increased fat mass reduce the capacity for thermoregulation?

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  • Higher specific heat capacity
  • Acts as insulator
  • Limits heat conduction to the periphery
89
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How do larger people have a limited effectiveness of sweat evaporation?

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  • Smaller surface area to body mass ratio
90
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What are Heat Cramps?

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  • Severe involuntary, sustained, and spreading muscle spasms
91
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When do Heat Cramps occur?

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  • During or after intense physical activity, usually in exercised muscles
92
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When does heat exhaustion occur?

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  • ineffective circulatory adjustments compounded by depletion of extracellular fluid, principally plasma volume from excessive sweating
93
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What is the most complex problem from heat exposure?

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  • Heat Stroke
94
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What does Heat Stroke Reflect?

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  • Failure of heat-regulating mechanisms from an excessively high core temperature
95
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What are some warning signs of Heat-related Disorders?

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  • Nausea
  • Chills, Goose Bumps
  • Headaches
  • Fatigue
  • Excessive Thirst
  • Cessation of Sweating
  • Profuse Sweating
  • Confusion
  • Painful Large Muscle Cramps
  • Loss of Consciousness
96
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Is Oral temperature reliable for testing core temperature?

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  • NO
97
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What does the hypothalamus sense regarding thermoregulation?

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  • Increased Temperature
98
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Where does the hypothalamus send signals when it senses an increase in temperature?

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  • Sweat glands become active
  • Vasodilation in skin blood vessels
99
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How does the hypothalamus activating the sweat glands help with thermoregulation?

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  • Increase evaporative heat loss
100
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How does the hypothalamus vasodilating skin blood vessels help with thermoregulation?

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  • More Heat lost from the skin
101
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What vascular adjustments occur in response to cold?

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  • Cutaneous cold receptors constrict peripheral blood vessels
102
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How does the cutaneous cold receptors constricting peripheral blood vessels in the cold help?

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  • Reduce flow of warm blood to the body’s surface
  • Redirecting warm blood to core
103
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What is the greatest contribution to defending against the cold?

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  • Physical Activity
104
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Exercise energy metabolism can sustain constant core temperature in the cold up to what air temperature?

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-30C

105
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What does shivering in the cold do?

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  • Generates metabolic heat
106
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Describe Shivering

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  • Rapid, involuntary cycle of contraction and relaxation of skeletal muscle
107
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How much can shivering increase the body’s heat production by?

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  • four to five times
108
Q

What neurotransmitters increase the heat production during cold exposure?

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  • Epinephrine
  • Norepinephrine
109
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What does cold stress stimulate from the thyroid?

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  • Release of Thyroxine
110
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What does the release of thyroxine from the thyroid during cold stress do?

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  • Increases resting metabolism
111
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What is normothermia?

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98.6F

112
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What temperature range is mild hypothermia?

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95-91.4F

113
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What changes might occur during mild hypothermia?

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  • Max Shivering
  • Increased Blood Pressure
  • Amnesia
  • Dysarthria
  • Poor Judgement
  • Behaviour Change
  • Ataxia
  • Apathy
114
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What temperature range signifies moderate hypothermia?

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89-85F

115
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What changes might occur during moderate hypothermia?

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  • Stupor
  • Shivering Ceases
  • Pupils Dilate
  • Cardiac Arrhythmias
  • Decreased Cardiac Output
  • Unconsciousness
116
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What temperature range signifies severe hypothermia?

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82-56F

117
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What changes might be seen in severe hypothermia?

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  • Ventricular fibrillation likely
  • Hypoventilation
  • Loss of reflexes and voluntary motion
  • Acid-base disturbances
  • No Response to pain
  • Reduced cerebral blood flow
  • Hypotension
  • Bradycardia
  • Pulmonary Edema
  • No Corneal Reflexes
  • Areflexia
  • Electroencephalographic Silence
  • Asystole
  • Lowest Infant Survival
  • Lowest Adult Survival
118
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How does the hypothalamus help in thermoregulation during cold temperatures?

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  • Senses drop in blood temperature
  • Sends signal to skin blood vessels for vasoconstriction
  • Sends signals to skeletal muscles for shivering
119
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Does cold ambient air pose special danger to the respiratory passages?

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  • NO
120
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What happens when extremely cold ambient air enters the respiratory tract?

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  • Reaches 26-32C before it reaches the bronchi
121
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What evidence contradicts the theory that cold ambient air poses no threat to damaging the respiratory passages?

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  • Athletes who exercise in very cold environments have a higher occurrence of hyper-reactivity or asthma compared to those who exercise in warmer environments
122
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What did the study on Alaskan sled dogs support?

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  • Strenuous exercise in cold environments can lead to lower airway disease
123
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What did the study on airway remodeling from cold-weather exercise in elite athletes find?

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  • Prolonged repeated exposure of the airways to inadequately conditioned air may induce inflammation and remodeling in competitive skiers
124
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