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Title: Cardiovascular Review
Description: These notes include a review of the cardiovascular system and the different functions which effect the body. This includes common disease which exist within the system and the effects that have on the body.

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Cardio and blood review honors 2014-2015


Look at the picture of the conduction system of the heart and be able to label it
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Know the layers of the heart wall
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Which ones receive blood? Which ones
discharge?

The atria receive and the ventricles pump and discharge
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It would be very wise for you to draw a basic heart with the four chambers valves
and main vessels bringing blood into and out of the heart
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Make sure to list the
structures you enter and pass along the way
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Define tachycardia, bradycardia, fibrillation, angina pectoris, and myocardial
infarction
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During atrial fibrillation, the heart's two upper chambers (the atria)
beat chaotically and irregularly — out of coordination with the two lower chambers (the
ventricles) of the heart
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When the demand for oxygen exceeds the supply,ischemia and
chest pain occur
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Myocardial infarction-Blood flow is completely blocked by a blood clot or fatty deposit,
resulting in the death of myocardial cells in the area fed by the artery, once the cells diem
they produce a area of necrosis
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What creates the sounds and how are they different?



The lub dub sounds result from the closing of the heart valves
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The dub reflects the semilunar
valves closing
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Anchored by ligaments and tissue to its
surrounding structures


What kind of tissue is blood?

Connective


Know the components of the centrifuged blood sample
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The major component of plasma is water
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Third is the formed elements-45% blood
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Erythrocytes,
leukocytes, and platelets
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How would you describe blood?

the red liquid that circulates in the arteries and veins of humans and other vertebrate
animals, carrying oxygen to and carbon dioxide from the tissues of the body
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In what way (phagocytes, antigenantibody, signaler) do they kill invading organisms? What kind of infective agents
(allergens, virus, cancer, etc
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Agranulocytes(have no granules)Lymphocytes- 2nd most numerous out of all, memory cells because of their b lymphocytes
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They are vital in
hemostasis
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What is systole? What is diastole?

Systole-contraction
Disatole- relaxation


What are the characteristics of plasma?

Main component if water although it is also made up if proteins, gases, hormones, and
electrolytes
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Plasma without clotting proteins is called serum
Title: Cardiovascular Review
Description: These notes include a review of the cardiovascular system and the different functions which effect the body. This includes common disease which exist within the system and the effects that have on the body.