Lecture 1 part 2 Flashcards
1
Q
Blood pressure is pressure of blood within the vessels
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2
Q
How is the blood circulating what is causing it to circulate? _________
A
The heart
3
Q
Heart contracts…the sound that we hear the contraction we hear a love dub..we have ventricles and atria
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4
Q
Diastolic is ___________which is filling
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relaxation
5
Q
Systolic is ___________
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contraction
6
Q
Blood pressure is dependent on ________ and _____________
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cardiac output and resistance
7
Q
BP is an indirect measure because you can’t measure the actual pressure in the heart when its contracting and filling that’s really not feasible so its an indirect measure
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