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Functions of Blood vessels

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What results in the failure of vessels to transport blood?   Ischemia  
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Symptoms of blood vessel ischemia   Pain, pulselessness, pallor, parenthesia, paralysis, coolness  
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What do blood vessels regulate?   BP  
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What do blood vessels exchange?   Nutrients and waste  
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Blood vessels are involved with redistribution of:   Blood  
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What else do blood vessels regulate?   Temperature  
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BP def.   The force exerted against the walls of the (large) arteries due to the pumping of the heart  
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Types of blood pressure   Systolic, diastolic, pulse pressure  
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Systolic pressure def.   The pressure in the arteries at the peak of ventricular contraction  
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Average Systolic Pressure   120mmHg  
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Normal range of systolic pressure   100-140mmHg  
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Diastolic pressure def.   The pressure in the arteries during ventricular relaxation  
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Pulse pressure def.   Systolic - diastolic = pulse pressure  
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Instruments used in measuring BP   sphygmomanometer and stethoscope  
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________________ is compressed until blood flow is ___________.   Brachial artery; stopped  
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First sounds heard when listening for systolic pressure   Korotkoff sounds (first heard thru stethoscope)  
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What is recorded when Kortkoff sounds stop?   Diastolic pressure  
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Hypertension def.   Chronic elevation of BP  
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Due to low pressure in veins, blood relies on three other mechanisms to return blood back to the heart   Skeletal muscle pump, respiratory pump, venoconstriction  
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Contraction of the heart muscle forces blood out the:   Ventricles from an area of high pressure to low pressure (BP - result of myocardium and blood vessels)  
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Blood vessels have the ability to change _____.   Diameter  
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Vasodilation def.   Increase in vessel diameter causes a decrease in resistance and a decrease in BP  
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Vasoconstriction def.   Decrease in vessel diameter causes an increase resistance and an increase in BP  
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Blood pressure =   2/3 diastolic pressure + 1/3 systolic pressure  
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Cardiac output =   SV x HR  
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Increase in SV and/or HR can increase:   CO and therefore BP (and vice versa)  
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What do arterioles primarily determine?   Vascular resistance  
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What influences vascular resistance   Sympathetic NS, Hormones (epinephrine, angiotensin II), drugs  
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Where are baroreceptors located?   Aortic arch, carotid sinus  
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Sensory nerves involved in maintaining BP?   Glossopharyngeal (CN IX) and vagus (CN X)  
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Function of medulla oblongata in maintaining BP?   Interprets info from sensory nerves  
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Motor nerces involved with maintaining BP   ANS to heart in vessels  
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Hormones involved in maintaining BP   Epinephrine and norepinephrine  
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Rapidly acting mechanisms involved in maintaining BP?   Baroreceptors, sensory nerves, medulla oblongata, motor nerves, nor/epinephrine  
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What are slow acting mechanisms?   Hormone regulated long-term maintenance  
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Where is atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) produced?   The heart (also lower BP)  
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At the level of the capillary, what moves out of the blood stram into the surrounding tissue space (interstinum)   Water, oxygen, electrolytes, glucose  
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At the level of the capillary, waste products move from where to where?   From the interstinum into the capillary  
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Characteristics of capillaries   Thin walled w/ pores, numerous, slow blood flow  
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What happens during diffusion?   O2 to cells, waste to vessels  
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What happens during filtration?   H2O, glucose, electrolytes from blood vessels to tissue  
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What happens to during osmosis?   H2O from tissue to blood vessels and lymphatic vessels  
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Edema def.   The accumulation of fluid in interstitial space  
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Mechanisms of edema formation   Heart failure, severe burn, kidney disease, blocked lymphatic drainage  
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Mech for edema formation: heart failure   Pulmonary edema, pedal edema  
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Edema formation: severe burn   Excessive fluid build up in interstitial space  
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Edema formation: kidney disease   Excess execretion of albumin in the urine (albuminuria) results in the build up of fluis in the tissue space  
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What causes vasodilation of vessels of skin?   Temperature elevation  
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When body temp. increases more blood flows to skin thereby releasing:   Heat and lowering body temp  
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What causes vasoconstriction of vessels of skin?   Temp. decrease  
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When body temp. decreases less blood flows to skin thereby:   Diverting warm blood to core of body  
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What happens as walls of arties thicken with age?   Decreased blood flow and increased blood pressure  
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With age, as valves become less effective they become susceptible to:   Varicosities  
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As you age, roughening of the endothelial lining of vessels:   Increased blood clot formation  
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With age baroreceptors become less effective. This can result in:   Dizziness and falls  
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With age, increased capillary membrane permeability, there's increased:   Edema formation  
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