Exam:#3 Peripheral Vascular System Flashcards
What is it called when you listen to the heart through a stethoscope?
Auscultation
What is the substance that prevents coagulation of blood?
Anticoagulant
What is the largest artery?
Aorta
Blood exits capillary beds and enters?
Venules
What carries blood away from the heart?
Arteries
So do ALL arteries carry oxygen rich blood?
No
Do ALL veins carry oxygen poor blood?
No
What is the outer most layer that is made of connective tissue, which reinforce the vessel wall so it will not burst?
Tunica adventitia
What is the middle layer, and contains smooth muscle?
Tunica media
What is the inner most layer, and would be in direct contact with blood?
Tunica Intima
What are the only one layer thick, made of only tunica Intima which makes it easy for exchange of gasses and nutrients?
Capillaries
What branches off the aortic arch?
Brachiocephalic
What is the drug given to strengthen the contraction of cardiac muscle?
Digitalis
What is the thickness of blood?
Viscosity
What is the increase in viscosity?
Polycythemia
What is the contraction of the smooth muscle layer and leads to restricted blood flow within a vessel?
Vasoconstriction
What are the 10 major pulse points?
Will have a question where one does not belong
- Temporal
- Facial
- Carotid
- Axillary
- Brachial
- Radial
- Femoral
- Popliteal
- Dorsalis
- Apical
What can cause severe pain in the muscle of the lower leg, because of poor circulation?
ArTeriosclerosis
What is a localized weak spot or balloon like enlargement of the wall of an artery?
Aneurysm
What is an ultrasonic device used to magnify the sound of blood moving through peripheral arteries and veins?
Doppler Probe
What is used to treat an arterial embolism?
Fogarty catheter
During a carotid endarterectomy, what tunica is removed along with the extracted plaque?
Tunica Intima
The Korotkoff sounds have how many phases?
5 phases
