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Mean Arterial Pressure: Lecture 9 Flashcards

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What determines mean arterial pressure?

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rearrange cardiac output equation

MAP = cardiac output x total peripheral resistance

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Why is the MAP so important? What is it’s purpose?

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  1. Contributes to Hearts workload
  2. Provides driving forces to move blood
  3. The number 1 regulated thing in our body
    - otherwise impaired nutrients and oxygen
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What does hypotension refer to?

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low blood pressure

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What is our systolic bp and diastolic bp for hypotension?

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90/60 mm Hg

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What are the 4 main symptoms of hypotension?

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  1. Dizziness
  2. Fainting
  3. Blurred vision
  4. Fatigue
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What causes these symptoms of hypotension

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  • insufficient blood flow to the brain, muscles
  • insufficient oxygen distribution
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What are the causes of hypotension?

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  • dehydration
  • pregnancy
  • heart failure
  • anemia
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What are the risk factors for hypotension?

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  • age
  • medication
  • certain diseases
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Why would Parkinson’s disease lead to low blood pressure?

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it affects the autonomic nervous system, aka PNS and SNS to regulate blood pressure

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Is Hypotension or Hypertension known as the silent killer?

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Hypertension

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What does hypertension refer to?

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High blood pressure

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What are the ranges of systolic and diastolic bp in stage 1 of hypertension?

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130-139/80-89 mm Hg

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What are the ranges of systolic and diastolic bp in stage 2 of hypertension?

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> =140/>=90

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What are the ranges of systolic and diastolic bp in stage 3 (Hypertensive crisis) of hypertension?

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> 180/>120 EMERGENCY

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What are the severe symptoms of hypertension?

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  • stroke
  • heart attack (myocardial ischemia)
  • kidney failure
  • blindness
  • dementia
  • sexual dysfunction
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What are the causes of hypertension?

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  • atherosclerosis
  • kidney disease
  • sleep apnea
  • thyroid issues
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What are the risk factors for hypertension?
(most are modifiable)

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  • age
  • genetics
  • obesity
  • inactivity
  • smoking
  • high sodium intake
  • stress
  • alcohol consumption
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Conduit vessels refer to what?

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Arteries

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What is the function of an artery?

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takes blood from the heart and distributes it to the various organs/tissues

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How do we have blood flow move efficiently?

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  1. Minimize the resistance
    - via larger diameter
    - low contractility, smooth muscle
    - high compliance, elasticity
  2. Artery walls need to be STRONG
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In a rested state how much blood do we have in the aorta during systole? and how long does it last?

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75 ml, 0.3 seconds

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Is the stretch of the aorta when blood comes into it passive or active?

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During systole, the aorta and heart will do what?

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aorta = expands passively
heart = contracting and emptying

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During diastole, the aorta and heart will do what?

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aorta = recoil passively
heart = relaxing and filling
*aortic valve is shut meaning blood has to move forward

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What are the Major benefits of compliance?
1. Lowers systolic blood pressure - via stretching, more volume more space to go 2. Converts intermittent flow into continuous blood flow - aka Windkessel effect
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What is the Windkessel effect?
helps to dampen the fluctuations in blood pressure over a cardiac cycle and maintains continuous blood flow when ventricular ejection ends (diastole)
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What allows aortic compliance?
elastin
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What is elastin?
matrix protein that increases compliance
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Where can elastin be found?
- arteries - tissues
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What is the equation for compliance?
compliance = volume/pressure
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If we want high compliance what would need to increase the volume or the pressure?
volume
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If we want low compliance what would need to increase the volume or the pressure?
pressure
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What is pulse pressure?
it is the pressure that dictates the movement of blood flow through the systemic circulation
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How do we calculate pulse pressure?
systolic pressure - diastolic pressure
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What does the Aortic valve closure refer to?
dicrotic notch
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How do we calculate Mean arterial pressure with knowing systolic and diastolic pressures?
MAP = DP + 1/3 (SP-DP)
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What are the factors that regulate Pulse Pressure?
1. Stroke Volume 2. Speed of blood ejection into the aorta 3. Aortic compliance
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How does stroke volume affect Pulse pressure?
- increased stroke volume will lead to increased systolic blood pressure - more pressure more heart contractility which leads to increased pulse pressure
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How does the speed of the blood ejection into the aorta affect Pulse pressure?
- if the heart is contracting more that will increase the speed as well as increase heart rate will all cause increased contractility - Increased contractility will cause increases in systolic blood pressure which leads to increased pulse pressure
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How does the aortic compliance affect the Pulse pressure?
- more compliant aorta will drop systolic blood pressure - reduce systolic blood pressure which will decrease Pulse pressure
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When we age which pressure will increase a bit more?
systolic blood pressure
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Why would aging affect our pulse pressure?
- aorta becomes less compliant, elastin properties will deteriorate
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What happens to our blood pressure during weightlifting?
- drastic increase in mean arterial pressure - double or three times during resistance exercise
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Why does our MAP, and systolic blood pressure increase as we weight lift?
exercise pressor reflex
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What is the exercise pressure reflex?
- we generate lots of tension in our skeletal muscles - High tension can activate mechanoreceptors inside our muscles as well as metabolite receptors - The high tension generated in your fibres will accumulate lactate and that will detect muscle afferents - that will generate an autonomic response to increase SNS and drop PNS aka increase stroke volume and increase vasoconstriction to other places that do not need lots of blood flow - all increasing systolic blood pressure

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