Hemodynamics/ Thrombosis & Embolus/ Shock Flashcards
Define: Edema
Increased hydrostatic pressure and/or decreased plasma oncotic pressure that leads to fluid movement out of the capillaries and into the adjacent tissue.
Define: Effusion
INcreased hydrostatic pressure and/or decreased plasma oncotic pressure that leads to fluid movement out of the capillaries and into the body cavity
True or False: Inadequate drainage of fluid from the tissues via the lymphatic system can also lead to fluid accumulation.
True.
Define: Hyperemia
An active increase in blood flow due to arteriolar dilation. It serves normal physiologic purposes such as bringing inflammatory and repair mediators into areas of tissue damage or infection, and it provides increased oxygen to contraction skeletal muscle
Define: Congestion
Pathologic accumulation of blood due to impaired outflow of venous blood.
Define: Transudate
Transudates typically occur when the vessel wall is intact due to elevated hydrostatic pressure or owered plasma oncotic pressure.
Define: Exudate
Exudates are associated with damage to the vessel wall resulting in abnormal permeability to proteins
If a fluid has a lot of white cells in it, how would it be classified?
Exudate
What causes hemorrhagic disorders?
Tissue and vessel damage exceeds the body’s normal hemostatic mechanisms or because diminished hemostatic mechanisms cannot manage and repair normal levels of damage
What are three basic factors that promote thrombosis?
- Endothelial injury
- Abnormal clood flow
- Hypercoagulability
Where is the most common site for thrombi?
Venous system
What is the most common cause of thrombi in the arterial system?
Endothelial injury
Where do arterial thrombi most commonly occur?
Coronary, cerebral and femoral arteries
A free floating, iintravascular mass of a solid, liquid or gas is a(n) __________
embolus `
Emboli in the venous/right sided system is most commonly lodged in what organ?
Lungs
Emboli in the arterial/left sided system can affect any organ, but most commonly what two areas?
Brain and legs
Describe what happens in disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).
Generalized activation of clotting leads to widespread thrombosis with subsequent consumption of platelets and clotting factors»_space;» Deficiency of platelets and clotting factors that then results in bleeding
How does DIC present clinically?
Anemia Respiratory insufficiency Convulsions Acute renal failure Shock
What symptom usually dominates when DIC presents acutely?
Bleeding
What symptom usually dominates when DIC presents chronically?
Thrombosis
Thrombosis and emboli commonly lead to severe _________& ___________
Ischemia and infarction
What are two types of infarcts?
Red (hemorrhagic)
White (anemia)
Describe the location(s) of red infarcts.
Red infarcts can occur in two ways:
- Venous occlusion
- Can form after an arterial occlusion if clood flow is subsequently reestablished and damaged vessels allow movement of blood into the necrotic area
Describe the location of white infarcts.
White infarcts are an arterial blookage, a single blood supply, and a dense tissue that limits accumulation of blood in necrotic areas