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approx ____ of blood in body, you circulate entire blood supply every ____
5L
minute
Cardiac output = ____ x ____
heart rate
stroke volume
____ for an adult at rest is 5L per minute
Cardiac output
____ = amount of blood pumped out of the heart per beat/contraction
Stroke volume
Heart rate for an adult at rest approx ____ beats per minute
50-80
Stroke volume (typ measured in ml) ____ ml per beat
60-80
____ = HR x SV
CO
____ what is being pumped out of the left ventricle
Stroke Volume
Small fraction of heart cells are ____ or ____
auto rhythmic
pacemaker cells
These pacemaker cells automatically generate an action potential at the rate of about ____ per minute
100
That means that at rest your heart is under control of the ____ nervous system, which dampens/decreases those action potentials
parasympathetic
Most of the heart cells are ____ cells, how forceful these cells contract influence the ____ . The stronger the contraction the higher the ____
contractile
stroke volume
stroke volume
The more cardiac exercise you do, the ____ your heart can ____ and the higher your average ____ can be.


(if you run across the room, your heartrate does not have to increase as much to get that high cardiac output needed)
harder
contract
stroke volume
If heart is going too ____, not enough time for the heart to fill up with blood and therefore stroke volume ____ and total ____ decreases
fast
decreases
cardiac output
Typically can increase cardiac output up to ____ per minute, which is a combination of stroke volume and heart rate
World class athlete up to ____ per minute which is still a combination of stroke volume and heart rate, but predominantly ____
25L
40L
stroke volume
(____) ____ = volume of blood in the left ventricle at the end of relaxation (heart is filled and ready to contract)
End-diastolic volume
EDV
Most of the time (if your heart is working properly) the higher your ____ the higher your stroke volume
EDV
Skeletal muscle pump and respiratory pump are two mechanisms that help increase ____
EDV
When standing have to work against ____ to get blood pumped back up to heart
gravity
____ - assessment of blood composition
Hematocrit
Most of blood is just ____
____ - what portion of blood is red blood cells
Red blood cells are ____ carriers
Females slightly lower ____ than males
water
hematocrit
oxygen
hematocrit
____ - mostly water, but has proteins, hormones, glucose
plasma
other stuff in blood besides plasma and erythrocytes
White blood cells small percentage
Platelets - cell fragments, help in clotting process
Red = ____
Blue = ____
oxygen full
oxygen poor
The heart sits in a fluid filled sac called a ____
Attached at the bottom to the ____
pericardium
diaphragm
____ is extremely dense and therefore tough connective tissue. Helps protect heart from any sort of puncture wound

(also have ____ protecting the heart)
Do not want heart ____ against any other organs, can be painful
pericardium
ribcage
rubbing
The left side of the heart sits about ____
The left side of the heart is bigger, literally sits ____
2/3 off center
off center
____ - chambers through which blood flows from veins to ventricles. ____ contraction adds to ventricular filling but is not essential for it.
Atria
Atrial
____ - chambers whose contractions produce the pressures that drive blood through the pulmonary and systemic vascular systems and back to the heart.
Ventricles
____ - low-resistance tubes conducting blood to the various organs with little loss in pressure. They also act as pressure reservoirs for maintaining blood flow during ventricular relaxation.
Arteries
____ - Major sites of resistance to flow; responsible for the pattern of blood flow distribution to the various organs; participate in the regulation of arterial blood pressure.
Arterioles
____ - Major sites of nutrient, metabolic end product, and fluid exchange between blood and tissues.
Capillaries
____ - site of nutrient, metabolic end product, and fluid exchange between blood and tissues.
Venules
____- low resistance conduits for blood flow back to the heart. Their capacity for blood is adjusted to facilitate this flow.
Veins
____ - liquid portion of the blood that contains dissolved nutrients, ions, wastes, gases and other substances. Its composition equilibrates with that of the interstitial fluid at the capillaries.
Plasma
____ - includes erythrocytes that function mainly in gas transport, leukocytes that function in immune defenses, and platelets (cell fragments) for blood clotting
Cells
CVD = ____
cardiovascular disease
The higher your resting blood pressure the higher your risk for developing ____
____ can be caused by narrow blood vessels
____ is increased risk to blood vessels, and decreased oxygen delivery
cardiovascular disease
high bp
high bp
____ = good cholesterol, we use cholesterol in our body plasma membranes and steroid hormone formation
HDL
LDL = ____, if LDL is ____ it can injure endothelial cells. As LDLs float in blood stream and become ____, arteries have _____ for LDL, and bind the LDL which is conducive to ____ formation
bad cholesterol
oxidized
oxidized
receptors
plaque
____ can increase the tendency of ____ to form
Intrude on the ____, decrease the bloodflow
More vulnerable to dislodging/breaking
Bigger the plaque, the higher the pressure and the more liable to ____ and start a blood clot inside the blood vessel
bad cholesterol
clots
lumen
dislodge
Form a clot and stop the bleeding and the platelet plug will send in stronger connective tissue
Called ____, the ____ will hold that blood vessel together until the endothelial tissue can ____
(need ____ to dissolve) does not behave the same was as blood vessel does dilate/constrict
fibrin
fibrin
repair
fibrin
Two mechanisms for triggering the clotting pathway- ____
the intrinsic and extrinsic pathway
____ - is a protein (chemical signal) that triggers platelets to migrate toward the damaged vessel/area
Thrombin
____
Activated when we actually cut ourselves, blood seeping out of our body (vessel damage that leads to blood leaving the body)
More important pathway, activates more quickly/quicker to respond
Fewer enzomatic steps
Literally plugs that blood vessel so cannot bleed out
Extrinsic
____
Blood vessel damage, but not losing blood to the environment, but may be losing it to body cavities (internal bleeding)
Takes a little longer because there are more enzomatic steps to get to the thrombin
Intrinsic
____ are drawn to the damaged area by chemical signal, and form the ____ a temporary fix to the blood vessel
platelets
platelet plug
____ -
The +, means have a D antigen
The -, means no antigen
(70 percent of Americans ____ the D antigen)
RH factor or D antigen
have
+ can ____, but - cant ____ +
receive
receive
____
Problem can be with 2nd baby, antibodies developed after first baby,
2nd baby, antibodies cross over to babies blood and attack it
Injection of ____ - inhibits developments of antibodies
mothers with no D antigen
rhogam
____ - lots of glycoproteins/self signature proteins
RBC (erythrocytes)
A blood has ____, has _____ for B antigens
Will fight off type ____ or type ____ blood.
A antigens
antibodies
B or AB
Type ____ is the universal Acceptor
Type ____ is the universal Donor
AB
O
RBC - lots of glycoproteins/self signature proteins

One of the ____ (one of many) we use for typing
Named for the self ____ antigen they have
antigens
surface
!do not need to know different kids of leukocytes
Just ____, ____ or ____
RBC
WBC
platelets
____ - no true nuclei, no mechanism for repairing themselves
More efficient oxygen carriers, more room for hemoglobin

____ - do have nuclei much laster longer
RBC
WBC
Red blood cells have a approx. ____ lifespan
120 day
Regulation of red blood cells-
Kidneys have chemoreceptors oof amount of oxygen they receive
As the amout decreases they produce erythropoietin (EPO)
Target tissue is in the bone marrow
Increase red blood cell production and will increase oxygen delivery
Negative feedback mechanism and stop producing epo
Narrowed blood vessels, decrease significantly blood flow to the ____. ____ are the arteries specifically oxygenated the heart itself. If they get blocked etc with ____, like a traffic jam
heart
coronary arteries
plaques
Put in a ____ that will flatten out the plaque against the arterial wall
Temporary fix, ____

Or ____, rerouting the blood flow, think of accident bypassing the area of blockage
tube/stent
5-10 years
bypass
____ useful, decrease blood volume therefore less EDV
Diuretics
____ - increase ventricular contractility and help manage EDV
Cardiac inotropic drugs
____ - heart failure/congestive heart failure
Old people
Heart is ____, not beating as strongly, starts getting a larger and larger ____, but cant handle it, not beating strong enough, starts to enlarge and build up fluid basically due to ____ if no other infections
old
EDV
enlarge
aging
____ leads to increased fluid retention, leading to increased blood volume and _____; however, the failing heart is less able to handle a large ____.
heart failure
greater stroke volume
EDV
____ or more commonly ____, reduce contractility strength reduce blood pressure
Beta-adrenergic
beta blockers
____ - inhibit enzyme producing angiotension II, I am inhibiting vasoconstriction and therefore lowering blood pressure
ACE inhibitors
____ - these drugs increase urinary excretion of sodium and water. They tend to decrease cardiac output with little or no change in total peripheral resistance.
Diuretics
____ - These drugs reduce the entry of calcium into vascular smooth muscle cells, causing them to contract less strongly and lowering total peripheral resistance. (lower BP)
Calcium channel blockers
____ - First it inhibits previous hormones, Aldosterone, angitension
It vasodialates or increases volume without increasing pressure
Also acts as a mild diuretic, promotes urine output (get rid of some of the volume)
ANP
____ or sometimes called ____ (hormone released by cells in the left atrial wall)
Inside the left atrium (high pressure side of the heart) there are stretch receptors that are activated
By increased volume, stretches that wall alittle bit
ANP
ANH
____ in the kidney that monitor blood flow, respond to a decreased blood pressure which is a decreased blood volume they release an enzyme ____
Triggers the conversion of ____ (inactive) to ____ (active)
Angiotension acts directly (prev slide)
And also acts to stimulate adrenal cortex to release ____
Baroreceptors
renin
angiotensinogen
angiotensin
aldosterone
Aldosterone is sluggish!, process is that if ___ , ___or___ occurs then angiotensin II a protein hormone is produced
salt deficit
low blood volume
low BP
____ is a vasoconstrictor, will decrease the diameter of all of my blood vessels, will increase blood pressure (faster response, will be able to continue to oxygenate my brain, until blood volume can be increased)
Angiotensin II
Remember rule wherever sodium goes, ____
water follows!
_____ is an agonist with adh, will help conserve water
Steroid hormone Rember sluggish, secreted by the adrenal cortex
Stimulated by low blood volume, same trigger as adh, or low sodium!
_____ will trigger the kidneys to release more sodium and the water will follow it, so reabsorb it
____ also promotes potassium secretion (out of body)
If released chronically lead to lots of salt-water imbalances
aldosterone
aldosterone
aldosterone
____ -
Is a steroid hormone secreted by adrenal cortex
Helps maintain blood volume & pressure through reabsorption & retention of salt and water
Release stimulated by salt deprivation, low blood volume and pressure
Aldosterone
____, released to conserve blood volume, conserve water
Anti/Opposite of diuretic
Adh - antidiuretic hormone
Dehydrated or high salt intake, will increase ____ - due to either more salt or less water in blood (high amounts of ____)
blood osmolality
solute
____ respond to a change in solute concentration
If they determine blood osmolality is increased they will send a signal to post pituitary to release ____
osmoreceptors
ADH
____ - increases water retention or water reabsorbtion in the kidney

____ - sends a signal thirsty!, hopefully drink water and help with blood volume
ADH
Hypothalmus
The ____ an organ clears waste products out of our system. regulates blood volume, drink too much fluid, more urine, dehydrated less urine
kidney
____, often just use the term blood pressure
Map = mean arterial pressure
Say we have a hemorrhage or lost blood

Low blood volume due to blood loss, low bp
One of the things to do is increase fluid absorption from the ____, shut down ____ no urine output
interstitial fluid
kidneys
If they detect a ____, one thing can do is ____, will increase volume loss
Hopefully lowering blood volume can ____
Can also detect ____, same mechanism - trigger ____ to increase output
higher BP
increase urine output
lower BP
increased blood volume
kidneys
Baroreceptors - ____
One place is monitoring pressure right as blood is leaving the heart - ____
Also have ____ - blood going to the brain
pressure sensor
aortic arch baroreceptor
carotic baroreceptors
Lose blood volume out of our body-

Loose blood volume, in turn lose blood pressure
Everything decreases w/ less ____

The biggest problem is lose enough ____ to the point that there is not enough for the ____, so little to no blood delivery to ____ and ____
blood volume
volume
heart to pump
heart
brain
____ helps maintain interstitial fluid balance, and it will help fight off infection (at the ____ they are going to store white blood cells which can attack foreign particles)
lymph system
lymph nodes
Lymphatic a system of ____
Helps flush out toxins
Blood capillaries also site of fluid exchange with the lymph capillaries
Groups of lymph ____, in addition to series of lymph ____
vessels
nodes
vessels
Always a slight disruption between ____ and ____ in the capillaries
____ will pick up the extra, but they return that fluid at the veins
For circ system a ____ for maintaining blood volume
filtration
absorption
lymphatic vessels
catchall
Increasing venous return -
Increases EDV
Increases stroke volume
Increases cardiac output/oxygen delivery
Veins have several "tricks"
Have to travel against ____ to get back to heart
____ - can help squeeze veins to help propel the blood back toward the heart
Veins have ____, one way swinging doors, a pressure mechanism to push them open and swing shut when the pressure below is less, to prevent ____
gravity
skeletal muscles
one way valves
backflow
As we age these venous valves weaken (need to prop up grandmas feet)
Decreases oxygen delivery
Net filtration pressure decreases
Interstitial fluid increases
At any given time more of your blood volume is tied up in your veins
Since it Is a lower pressure system, need larger ____, ____
volume
approx 60%
____ - is the pressure in the capillary, water pressure pushing out
____ - is all the solutes in the capillary, drawing fluid in
____ -water pressure outside (interstitial fluid) pushing toward capillary
____ - acting osmotic ally pulling fluid toward the interstitial fluid
Pc
∏c
Pif
∏if
Positive = ____
Neg = ____
P is for ____
∏ is for ____
arterial
venous
plasma
protein
____ - is the movement of fluid and solutes out of the blood (in this chapter)
____ - move something (fluid or solutes) back into the blood
____ - moving fluid or solutes out of my body
filtration
absorption
secretion
Net filtration pressure = ____
Pc + ∏if - Pif - ∏c
1st rule -

2nd rule-
net filtration pressure is positive at the arterial end of a capillary (want to push things out of the blood to the tissues)

net filtration pressure is negative at the venous end of a capillary (fluid and solute are being absorbed into the blood)
In a healthy person, the protein levels should remain constant no matter where you are along the capillary
Also interstitial fluid should remain constant
So the only thing that changes is the hydrostatic pressure in the capillary
net filtration pressure
Make a point of the ____ surface area is so tremendous - basically every cell in our body will have direct access to a capillary, every cell needs ____ and ____ (oxygen, co2, glucose) so have tremendous surface area and is a ____ system, and no muscle cell in capillaries
capillary
nourishment
waste disposal
low pressure
If fast/high pressure would not have time for transfer and would burst those very thin ____ walls
capillary
____ -Oxygen rich blood vessel, see oxygen and co2 traveling down their ____. Other main molecule is ____, our main energy source
capillary system
concentration gradients
glucose
As the blood vessels get larger and larger, larger ____ blood vessels are going to be larger in ____, but also have a higher pressure, so have ____ so have ability to change pressure
oxygen rich
diameter
smooth muscle
As blood vessels get larger and larger on the ____ side they increase in ____ too, but are carrying blood at a lower ____ (think lazy river) so not have the same thick ____ layer
oxygen poor
diameter
pressure
muscle
What affects blood pressure?
Plaques narrowing diameter of artery, affect BP negatively
(anytime you narrow the diameter of an artery you are increasing BP, like putting thumb over portion of your water hose)
Capillary site of gas exchange, at tissues oxygen will diffuse down ____ and co2 across its ____
gas exchange
concentration gradient
concentration gradient
How it is being measure the "old fashioned way"
Basically squeeze the arm hard, basically squeezing shut that main artery down that forearm
Increased pressure, no sound literally closed off blood flow, slowly release pressure
Top number is when they first hear sounds, pressure is released just enough to start hearing sounds rushing through
Keep on releasing pressure, until pressure is completely off - wait to hear nice blood flow (no traffic jam sounds)
BP standard -
120/80 standard but a wide range of normal
One exception! In ____ - heart is beating so
fast that there is no filling time between beats, so cardiac output actually decreases
ventricular fibrillation
___: norepinephrine delivery from sympathetic neurons, and epinephrine delivery from adrenal medulla (reduce parasympathetic).
To increase HR, increase
____ - end-diastolic volume, norepinephrine delivery from sympathetic neurons, and epinephrine delivery from the adrenal medulla.
To increase SV, increase
If heart is conditioned by ___,
The heart rate can drop, so ____
Increases, more filling more stroke volume
More ____ delivery
regular exercise
filling time
oxygen
The more time the heart spends in relaxation, the more filling time it has, so it will have an increased ____, increased ____ will have increased ____
EDV
EDV
stroke volume
To further increase oxygen delivery to tissue, can increase stroke volume,
Increase delivery of epinephrine and Norepinephrine

If you exercise/condition heart muscle it will contract more forcefully and that will increase stroke volume

Can temporarily have actin and myosin in heart muscle align optimally, to increase contractilaly strength
Mechanisms for speeding or slowing heart rate for bodies needs

Speeding up heart for -


Mechanisms - decrease parasympathetic and increase sympathetic

Increase epinephrine, from the adrenal gland, act like norepinephrine
Acts to increase heart rate
Exercise
Fever
Change positions, lying down and then quickly stand up
Mechanisms for speeding or slowing heart rate for bodies needs

Mechanisms -

___ - Acts to increase heart rate
decrease parasympathetic and increase sympathetic
Increase epinephrine, from the adrenal gland, act like norepinephrine
Piece of cardiac cycle, to get a sense of what is going on with pressure over time
We mentioned 4 components in the cardiac cycle already

____ during relaxation
____ with contraction

____ = all 4 valves are closed and blood volume does not change in any of the chambers
ventricular filling
ejection
isovolumetric
Pieces of cardiac cycle -
Ventricular Filling
Isovolumetric ventricular contraction
Ventricular ejection
Isovolumetric ventricular relaxation
Another way to calc stroke volume - ____
SV = EDV-ESV
____, largest volume the left ventricle sees
EDV
____ - amount of blood ejected with each contraction
Stroke Volume
____ - Lowest amount of blood volume ventricles see
ESV (End systolic volume)
Prolonged refractory period = ____
cannot get tetanus
____ is the primary pacemaker, but do have backup ____
Have backup cells if it gets damaged
SA node
pacemaker potential
Action potential traveling-
SA node
AV nod
Down Bundle Branches
Purkinje fibers - now contraction occurs
At Rest
The ____, the _____ occurs prior to the muscle contraction
action potential
electrical stimulation
____ - measures the electrical activity of the heart
Not what waves measure electrically - but also whats happening in the heart in the intervals between the waves
ecg/ekg
The valves between chambers are connected to the ventricles by the ____ in the figure - (____) help keep the valves opening and closing at regular intervals
Can get ____ and ____ over time (burping into atria)
white tendons (chordae tendineae)
damaged
stretch out
Left side of the heart is on right side of the paper, looking down on the paper, left side is ____, left side is ____
and has a more muscular appearance
____ - high pressure
____- low pressure
____ has to blast that blood all over the body
____ just has to send that blood gently next door to the longs
Oxygen rich
bigger
LS
RS
Left side
Right side
Typically arteries are oxygen rich and veins oxygen poor
2 exceptions -
pulmonary veins
pulmonary arteries
____ - coming to heart from the lungs so they are oxygen rich
pulmonary veins
____ - are going to the lung from the heart so they are oxygen poor
pulmonary arteries
Heart is composed of 3 main layers -
endocardium
myocardium
epicardium
Innermost (blood facing) ____ layer - basically and endothelium, easily sloughed off and replaced
endocaridum
Middle layer (muscle layer) ____, contractile part of the heart
myocardium
Outer layer, ____ - connected to the pericardium, a strong connective tissue to protect the heart
epicardium
bicuspid or ____ valve
mitral
____ - narrowing, congenital or heart attack
Blood backing up to left ventricle
Left ventricle enlargement
Decrease stroke volume, blood cant squeeze out
Aortic stenosis
____ - damaged valve, possibly heart attack
Leads to blood burping back down into the left ventricle
Aortic insufficiency
Aortic stenosis and insufficiency -
Issues with the ____ side of the heart
Problem with the ____, valve between ____ and the aorta
left
aortic semilunar valve
left ventricle
____ - blood pops back up to left atria
Decrease stroke volume a little bit
Decrease the pressure that left ventricle can build up, decrease force you can send blood on through to the aorta
Mitral insufficiency
____ - often hereditary (born with it)
Have to do with valve not closing correctly, flaps overlapping a little bit, or not meeting etc
Same problem as mitral insufficiency (blood back to left atria) (really just a congenital mitral insufficiency)
Often don’t know you have it
Sometimes a skipped beat..
Often don’t do anything unless really irregular heart beat
Mitral valve prolapse
Can do ____ of heart to see if valves functioning appropriately
Can do ____ to look at it...
sonograms
ecg
Or ____, where valve is slightly narrow (congenital means born with it) heart attack, scar tissue builds up
Like a traffic accident, blood starts backing up right above the narrow spot - left atrium
Left atrial enlargement
Left ventricle gets less blood, so stroke volume decreases
left AV stenosis
____ - spontaneously depolarize at approximately 100 per minute
At rest heart is under control of parasympathetic (because want to slow it down a bit)
Pacemaker cells
____ - how it travels through the heart (sequence)
Cardiac action potential
Right atrial wall - ____ - group of pacemaker cells
1st structure for action potential generation in the heart
sinoatrial node, SA node
Want heart muscle to contract as a unit and want contraction to contract starting at the ____
bottom
(think squeezing toothpaste from the bottom)
Differences between cardiac and other skeletal action potential etc!

Addition of ____ increase the refractory period which means cannot get a sustained contraction (no tetanus)

Similarities - sodium enters, depolarizes
Potassium channels are slower causes repolarizes
voltage gated calcium channels
____ - atria is sending far too many action potentials, and often not synchronous, meaning the atria is not contracting as a unit- messing with the regularity of the heart rate and preventing the
Ventricles from filling up appropriately
Atrial fibrillation
How it is being measure the "old fashioned way"

Basically squeeze the arm hard, basically squeezing shut that ____ down that forearm
Increased pressure, no sound literally closed off ____, slowly release pressure
Top number is when they first ____, pressure is released just enough to start hearing sounds rushing through
Keep on releasing pressure, until pressure is ____ - wait to hear nice blood flow (no traffic jam sounds)
main artery
blood flow
hear sounds
completely off
In a healthy person, the ____ should remain constant no matter where you are along the capillary
Also ____ should remain constant
So the only thing that changes is the ____ in the capillary
protein levels
interstitial fluid
hydrostatic pressure
To increase ____, increase - end-diastolic volume, ____ delivery from sympathetic neurons, and ____ delivery from the adrenal medulla.
SV
norepinephrine
epinephrine
Heart sounds (lub dub) - what you hear are the ____
valves closing,
slamming shut
1st lub is the ____ slamming shut
2nd lub is the ____ valve close
av valve
semilunar
Brief moment where all ____ are closed
(blue vertical band on chart above)
Any pressure changes that occur at the point
____

Ventricular contraction 1st and and relaxation 2nd
4 valves
Are isovolumetric (blood volume does not change)
_____ -
Semilunar valve - between the aorta and ventricle (responds to pressure)
Once bp in the left ventricle increases above the pressure in the aorta it will open the aortic semilunar valve
(once pressure in ventricle is above pressure in the aorta it will fling open valve and blood will surge into aorta -
Once pressure drops below aortic pressure the valve slams shut
Creates a dichotic notch - that slight bump
Aortic pressure
Pressure as it relates to ventricular volume and the ecg
Atrial depolarization occurs and this triggers atrial contraction - blood will enter the ventricle, ventricular depolarization which corresponds to tremendous increase in ventricular pressure

Ventricle relaxation triggers decrease in ventricular pressure

Expect volume to be highest at the end of relaxation (right before contraction)
Ventricles have relaxed and are filled with blood

QRS wave will signal/trigger contraction which will increase pressure and force blood out of the left ventricle (blood volume in left ventricle plummets)

At the end of the contraction - get the drop in pressure, the relaxation, get the systolic volume - amount of blood left in ventricles after relaxation
____ means relaxation
BP 120/80 means, pressure vessels are putting out
____ = 120
____ = 80
Diastole
Systole
Diastole
____ means contraction
(atrial or ventricle contraction)
____ occurs as a unit - right and left atria or right and left ventricle
Systole
Contraction
____ - ventricles contracting too fast - not efficient at all, very low oxygen, asynchrony of contraction
Ventricle fibrillation
____ = depolarization of the muscle cells in the atria
Atria depolarization - assume this leads to atrial contraction (this happens somewhere in the PQ interval)
P wave
___ - spike
Ventricular depolarization
Trigger ventricular contraction
QRS complex/wave
____ - ventricular repolarization
T wave
Approx ____ seconds from ____ wave to ____ wave (at rest - no exercise)
.8
p wave
p wave
____ is being hidden/masked under the QRS
Atrial repolarization
Approx ___ seconds for the QT interval - if longer think about ____ or ____
.4
blockage
miscommunication
At hookup to ecg - looking for ____
Sometimes looking at the intervals.
nice even pattern
The interval between the ____ and the ____ should be less than ____ seconds.
If its taking longer something is blocking that flow of information, something is increasing the communication time between the ____ and those bundled branches (____ etc)
p
QRS
.2 seconds
SA node
scar tissue
Heart Valves -
Right (tricuspid) AV valve
Pulmonary Semilunar Valve
Left (bicuspid) AV valve
Aortic Semilunar valve
Pulmonary Vein back to the heart -
Superior Vena Cava - on top, blood flow "down" to the right atrium
Inferior Vena Cava - on bottom, blood flow "up" to the right atrium
(EPIC)
Blood entering the right atrium,...
blood goes through the right atrio ventricular valve (av) often called the tricuspid valve
Right ventricle
Pulmonary semilunar valve,
Pulmonary artery which branches right and left to lungs
Lung capillaries - gas exchange will occur, oxygen poor blood will give up carbon dioxide and pick up oxygen
Oxygen rich blood will eventually now get to pulmonary veins
Left atrium
Bicuspid AV valve
Left ventricle
Aortic semilunar valve
Out to the aorta (main oxygen rich blood vessel)

Branch into several main arteries and send oxygen rich blood to the body
Branch finer and finer, systemic capillaries, oxygen exchange - dropping off oxygen and picking up carbon dioxide
Bigger and bigger veins
Finely superior and inferior vena cava that dump into the right ventricle
Blood from from Left Ventricle to Right Atria -
Aorta
Arteries
Arterioles
Capillaries
Venuoles
Veins
Vena Cavae
Blood from Right Atrium to Aorta-
Right (tricuspid) AV valve
Right ventricle
Pulmonary Semilunar valve
Pulmonary artery
Capillaries of lungs
Pulmonary vein
Left Atrium
Left (bicuspid) AV valve
Left Ventricle
Aortic Semilunar valve
Backup pacemaker potential in the
AV node & bundle of His
(if the SA node is damaged etc)
But! They are slower AV node =
___ minute (vs 100 for SA)
Bundle of his = ___ per minute
50
30
Issues w/ backup pacemaker -
1st problem - lose parasympathetic
control - only have sympathetic

2nd with bundle of his as the ap
You lose atrial contraction ability
Which lowers stroke volume
Mitral =
think mighty!, left strong side of the heart, the bicuspid valve into the left ventricle
Whats happening ionically-
Sodium will enter the muscle cell and depolarize it
Sodium channels are very quick
Do not want to sustain a contraction! (bad lose blood flow)
3rd ion - voltage gated calcium channels
Allows calcium to enter the cell - down its concentration gradient
This prolongs the depolarization event -
This extends the refractory period, which means
I cannot! Have another action potential stimulating before a certain amount of time

Potassium channels are opening slowly, potassium will exit or leave the cell slowly and this will repolarize the cell back down to resting and will not get the sustained contraction as before
QRS complex/wave - spike
Ventricular depolarization
Trigger ventricular contraction
T wave -
ventricular repolarization
atrial repolarization -
is being hidden/masked under the QRS
P wave -
depolarization of the muscle cells in the atria

Atria depolarization - assume this leads to atrial contraction
QRS wave will signal/trigger -
contraction (left ventricle)