4 - Hemodynamics Flashcards
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What is hemodynamics?
Hemodynamics is the dynamics of blood flow
What is blood pressure? Why does this exist?
BP is the pressure (applied) on the arterial walls
This is due to the blood circulating around the body which puts pressure on the walls of the vessels (esp arteries)
How is BP measured?
- Instrument: Sphygmomanometer
- 2 values measured:
A. Systolic BP
- pressure when the <3/LV is contracting and pumping blood into the BVs
-peak of contraction of LV
B. Diastolic BP
-pressure on the BVs when the heart relaxes/not contracting/at rest
T or F. The diastolic P is 0 usually.
No! Need pressure higher than 0 that may be lower initially systolic P but enough to continue flow of blood in the system. This is due to blood vessels, NOT THE HEART.
Physical factors affecting blood flow
- <3
- BVs
- Blood
Inotropy vs. Chronotropy vs. Dromotropy
Inotropy - contractility
Chronotropy - HR
Dromotropy - Conduction
What makes the blood flow/determines the rate of blood flow (vol of blood moving per unit of time)?
Pressure gradient!!!
What generates the pressure that drives the flow of blood through the vasculature? How?
HEART
-by creating a pressure diff between the arteries and veins
Pressure generated during systole and diastole in aorta vs LV?
LV creates 120/0 when it contracts but aorta maintains /80 so that blood would still flow when at rest
What is cardiac output? Factors
> CO is the volume of blood delivered to the body in a minute that is constantly exerting pressure on the BV walls
CO = HR x SV
What is stroke volume?
Stroke volume is the amount of blood that your LV can pump in 1 beat/cycle
What generates the systolic pressure? Diastolic pressure?
Systolic pressure - generated by <3
Diastolic pressure - generated by BVs (e.g. recoil)
T or F. All arteries are for resistance.
F!
Aorta and large arteries are for distribution
Small arteries - distribution and resistance
Arterioles - resistance
Laplace’s Law
T = P x r
Implies that large arteries
must have thicker walls than
small arteries in order to
withstand the level of tension.
…
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What is Total Peripheral Resistance (TPR)?
Combined resistances of all the blood vessels in your systemic circuit
Most important factor/s in determining resistance? This is controlled by?
- Main: Vessel radius
(Arteriolar radius) - main
-controlled by:
a. Local control: myogenic responses to stretch, temperature, histamine release
B. Extrinsic control: vasopressin, angiotensin, epinephrine
- Other factor determining resistance: Blood viscosity
- Number of RBCs
Relationship of 1-3 to resistance
- Blood viscosity
- Vessel length
- Vessel radius
1 & 2 directly proportional
3 indirectly proportional
What happens to the resistance to flow when a patient…
(1) has high Hematocrit
(2) dehydrated
(3) has COPD
1 & 2: more viscous = more resistant
3: higher RBC count due to poor oxygenation; more viscous = more resistant
What is shear thinning?
A condition wherein an inc in blood flow velocity causes a dec in viscosity
Blood without movement (when you stop heart and allow blood to stay there) will exert a pressure in your walls (mean capillary filling pressure) which is about __. Until when will this happen?
~7 mmHg; until it clots
Factors affecting resistance
R = 8Ln/ pi r^4
Poiseuille’s Law
- Formula
- Assumptions
Q = Pgrad/R
-cannot answer all questions because he was talking about Newtonian Fluid here
Assumptions
- BVs are long, straight, and rigid
- Blood viscosity is constant and independent of flow
- Blood is flowing under steady laminar conditions
T or F. Blood vessels are rigid.
False! They’re distensible not rigid.