A & P Test Four - 7.12

How can venous system increase cardiac output when needed?

Venous tone equals

What is distensibility?

What is vascular compliance?

How do you calculate compliance?

How do distensibility and compliance differ?

How do you calculate pulse pressure?

What's another name for an incisura? What is an incisura?

How does stroke volume affect pulse pressure?

How does pulse pressure affect arterial compliance?

What is the mean arterial blood pressure?

What is mean arterial pressure more influenced by? Diastolic or systolic pressure?

What are the most distensible vessels? How much more distensible are they?

What is vascular tone?

Describe the nature of driving pressure in a rigid tube.

Describe the nature of driving pressure in a distensible tube.

What is the relationship of resistance and flow in a distensible tube?

What is the Law of LaPlace?

What are the consequences of LaPlace's Law with respect to the diameter of cylinders.

What types of vessels are most likely to rupture?

How does the Law of LaPlace apply to the filing pressure of the left ventricle?

Is MAP lower downstream or upstream?

Damping and loss of pulse pressure is directly proportional to what?

Describe how arteriosclerosis affects pulse pressure.

How does aortic stenosis affect pulse pressure?

How does a patent ductus arterioles affect pulse pressure contours?

How does aortic regurgitation affect pulse pressure?

Name the value of widened pulse pressure.

What are the causes of widened pulse pressure?

What is the value for narrowed pulse pressure?

What are some causes of narrowed pulse pressure?

How do you calculate MAP? What are the normal values for MAP?

What is another name for central venous pressure?

What factors increase Right Atrial Pressure?

How are the veins inside the skull affected in regards to central venous pressure?