Lecture 10 - Overview of Circulation Flashcards
What is the systolic and diastolic pressure in arteries?
Systolic: 120mmHg
Diastolic: 80mmHg
What is the systemic capillary pressure?
10-35 mmHg
What is the pressure at the vena cava?
0 mmHg
What is the systolic and diastolic pressure in the pulmonary arteries?
Systolic: 25 mmHg
Diastolic: 8 mmHg
What is phasic pressure?
- occurs in arteries
- variations in pressure that occurs due to systole and diastole
What is mean arterial pressure?
-time weighted average of the pressure in the arteries
What portion of the total blood is found in each part of the circulatory system?
Systemic circulation: 84%
- veins: 64%
- arteries: 13%
- arterioles and capillaries: 7%
Heart/Lungs: 16%
- lungs: 9%
- heart: 7%
What is the formula for the velocity of blood flow?
V = F / A
V - velocity of blood flow
F - volume of blood flow
A - vascular cross sectional area
What are the three basic functional principles of the circulatory system?
- RATE of blood flow to each tissue is always precisely CONTROLLED in relation to the TISSUE NEED
- the cardiac OUTPUT is controlled mainly by the SUM of all the LOCAL tissue FLOWS
- ARTERIAL PRESSURE regulation is generally INDEPENDENT of either local blood FLOW control or cardiac OUTPUT control
What is pressure gradient?
-pressure difference between the two ends of a vessel
What is resistance?
-impediment to blood flow through a vessel
How is flow through a vessel calculated?
-using Ohm’s law (Poiseuille equation)
- F = ΔP / R
- ΔP = (P1 - P2)
F - flow in mL/min
P1 - upstream pressure
P2 - pressure at end of segment
R - resistance between P1 and P2
What is the overall blood flow of an adult at rest?
- 5000 mL/min
- also referred to as cardiac output
What is laminar flow and when does it occur?
-also called streamline flow
- blood flows at a steady rate in layers (streamlines)
- blood flows slowest in outer layers and fastest at inner layers
- occurs in long, smooth vessels
What is turbulent flow and when does it occur?
- flow is non-layered
- creates a murmur
- higher resistance
Occurs when blood…:
- flow is too great
- passes an obstruction
- makes a sharp turn
- passes over a rough surface