lab exam 1 Flashcards
granulocytes - neutrophil
- trilobe/weird nucleus
- small purple granules
- most abundant 3000 to 7000 cells/ul
granulocytes - eosinophil
- large red granules
- bilobe nucleus
- 100 to 400 cells/ul
granulocytes - basophil
- large blue granules
- u shaped nucleus
- 20 to 50 cells/ul
agranulocytes - lymphocyte
- smallest of all classes of WBC
- very large round nucleus
- 1500 to 3000 cells/ul
agranulocytes - monocyte
- largest
- u shaped/ puffy nucleus
- 100 to 700 cells/ul
erythrocytes
- bi concave red disk
- anucleate
- 4 to 6 million cells/ul
platelets
- small blue fragments
- 150,000 to 400,000 cells/ul
quantitative
- precise, measure exact value
- uses special tool
- red blood cell count
qualitative
- determines a relative amount, not exact
- white blood cell count
ECG
- electrocardiogram
- measures electrical activity from the heart
cardiac cycle - heatbeats
systole - ventricles are contracting diastole - ventricles are relaxing early - all chambers are relaxed mid to late - atria contracts, ventricles still relaxed
P wave
- atrial depolarization.
- atria will begin to contract
- occurs during mid to late diastole
- initiated by SA node
QRS complex
- ventricular depolarization; contracts
- occurs during onset of systole
- initiated by AV node
- hides atrial repolarization
T wave
- caused by ventricular repolarization
- ventricles will start to relax
- occurs during early diastole
PR interval
- beginning of P to beginning of QRS
PR segment
- end of P to beginning of QRS
QT interval
- beginning of QRS to end of T
- total time of ventricular contraction
- total time in systole
ST segment
- end of QRS to beginning of T
- ventricles still contracting
End of T to next R
- next R means beginning QRS complex
- end of T to beginning of QRS complex
- total time of diastole
- amount of time ventricles have to fill
- shortens the most with exercise
EEG disorders - enlarged R wave
- bigger then normal QRS complex
- caused by ventricular hypertrophy,
muscle wall is bigger - healthy reason - very athletic
- unhealthy - high blood pressure and
cardiovascular disease. Heart works
hard to eject blood
EEG disorders - Long QT
- QT interval is extra long
- genetic, born with heart defect
- cause arrythmias
- fainting during sex
heart sounds - Lub
- generated when the AV valves close
- close at beginning of systole
- coinside with QRS complex on ECG
heart sounds - Dup
- SL valves close
- early diastole, end of T on ECG
Auscultating heart valves - 2nd intercostal space
- listening for SL valve
- right side of heart = aortic SL valve
- left side of heart = pulminary SL valve
Auscultating heart valves - 5th intercostal space
- listening for AV valves
- right side = tricuspid
- left side = bicuspid
sounds
healthy - crisp and clear
unhealthy - anything but crisp and clear heart murmur
Heart murmurs
- whooshing sound - incompetent (leaky)
valve. backflow of blood through valve - high pitched squeak or click - caused by
stiff valves = stenosis
Pulse
- indirect measure of heart rate
- apical - listen to lub dup at heart apex
- superficial - palpate surges in peripheal
artery at pressure points.
carotid, radial, brachial
Defects- pulse deficit
apical and superficial pulses don’t match. Usually means something is wrong with the heart.
- arrythmia - abnormal heart rhythms