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DVT423_CA
lower extremity arterial doppler indirect
Question | Answer |
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What is an energy gradient? | A difference in pressure between two points. |
With laminar flow, how do the layers of blood flow? | Parallel to one another. |
What type of flow occurs during diastole? | Parabolic flow. |
What is directly proportional to the hematocrit level in the blood? | Viscosity. |
What type of flow means "flat movement?" | Plug flow. |
If you have high blood viscosity , will blood be more or less resistive? | More resistant. |
What would a Reynolds number >2,000 indicate? | Turbulence. |
If velocity of blood increases, what happens to the pressure? | If velocity increases, pressure goes down. |
What has the greatest effect on turbulence? | Radius of a vessel. |
What is located in the adventitia that supplies the arteries and vein. | Vasa Vasorum: supplies the arteries and veins with their own blood supply. |