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CV/Respiratory (Goss)
South College
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Health Care
Graduate
02/07/2009

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Term
Tetralogy of Fallot
Definition

Overriding aorta

Pulmonary stenosis

R ventricular hypertrophy

 Ventricular septal defect

Term
In a shunt blood is usually pushed from the _____ to the ____ side. 
Definition
From the left to the right (b/c L side is stronger)
Term
Shunts that are normal before birth
Definition
1. Foramen ovale = R atrium → L atrium (lets blood bypass lungs)
 
2. Ductus arteriosus = pulmonary trunk → aorta (lets blood bypass lungs)
 
3. Ductus venosus = visceral veins → vena cava (bypassing the liver)
Term
4 major clinicopathologic forms of atherosclerosis
Definition

Coronary heart dz

Cerebrovascular dz

Atherosclerosis of aorta

PVD

Term
Lipid transport in the body
Definition

•Dietary lipids are absorbed as chylomicrons

•Adipose + muscle cells take up lipids from chylomicrons

•Chylomicron remnants = IDL's 

•IDL's become LDL's which can deliver fat to the liver and by other tissues

•LDL receptors are necessary for liver to uptake them

•Some LDLs are taken up by scavenger cells (like macrophages) 

•HDL's are made in the liver → go out into periphery and pick up lipid → carry lipid back to liver 

Term
Stable versus unstable plaques
Definition
•Stable 
    -Thick fibrous caps
    -Partially block vessels
    -Tend not to form clots or emboli
•Unstable
    -Thin fibrous caps
    -Plaque can rupture and cause clot to form →
      clot may break free and become embolus
    -May completely block artery
Term
Kinds of angina
Definition
•Stable = pain when hearts oxygen demand increases
 
•Variant = pn when coronary arteries spasm
 
•Silent myocardial ischemia = myocardial ischemia w/o pn 
Term
HTN
Definition
•Primary (>90%) = cause unknown
 
•Secondary = renal, endocrine, neurogenic, drugs
Term
Pulsus Paradoxus
Definition
•On inhaling the RV fills with extra blood
•Heart cannot fully expand
•LV is compressed and cannot accept much blood 
•On the next heart beat the LV does not send out much blood
•Drop in systolic BP
Term
Thromboangitis obliterans (Burger Dz)
Definition
•Affects medium sized arteries
•Dz of heavy cigarette smoking men b/n 25-40 y.o.
•Predominant sx = pn 
 
Term
Compliance
Definition

How easily the lungs can be inflated

 

Depends on:

-Elastin and collagen fibers

-Water content

-Surface tension

Term

•Dissolved oxygen

 

•Oxgyen bound to Hb

Definition
•PaO2 or PO2 (normal = >80 mmHg)
 
•Oxyhemoglobin (normal = 95-97% saturation)
Term

•Dissolved CO2

 

•CO2 bound to Hb

 

Definition
•PaCO2 or PCO2 (normal = 35-45 mmHg)
 
•Carbaminohemoglobin
Term
CO2 relationship to blood pH
Definition
Carbonic acid ↔ bicarbonate + H+
Exhale → less CO2 → less carbonic acid → increase in pH
Term
2 respiratory centers in brain
Definition
1. Medulla oblongota = controls rate
 
2. Pons = controls depth
Term
Chemoceptors that adjust respiration rate
Definition
1. Central chemoceptors
    -Measure PCO2 and pH in CSF
    -Increase respiration when PCO2 increases or
     pH decreases
 
2. Peripheral chemoceptors
    -Measure PO2 in arterial blood
    -Increase respiration when PO2 <60 mmHg
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