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Change: A really STUPID thing some adolescents do (stupid because it cuts off oxygen to the brain and has risk of permanent brain damage or death)
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Change: In addition to the materials listed here you may be interested in Tufts University's free open courseware about cardiac physiology and pathophysiologyThe heart in Technicolor loveliness!! An efficient circulatory system has:1. blood to carry materials to be transported;2. A system of vessels to distribute the blood;3.
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Change: Cardiac Output, Blood Flow, and Blood PressureThe heart in Technicolor loveliness!! An efficient circulatory system has:1. blood to carry materials to be transported;2. A system of vessels to distribute the blood;3. A pump (heart) to push the blood through the system;4. exchange organs
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Change: Way cool picture of beating heart!!! Tachycardia is a fast heart rate and Bradycardia is slow heart rate.For example A cardiac rate slower than 60 beats per minute indicates Bradycardia. A rate faster than 100 beats per minute is described as Tachycardia. Both of these can
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Change: *An*An arrhythmia is any abnormal heartbeat (too fast, Too slow, irregular, fibrillation's) *Can change from benign to life-threatening *In many cardiac arrhythmia's, the premature or abnormal beats do not produce an effective pumping action and are experienced as “skipping beats” Bypass Surgery, Coronary Artery What is
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Change: There were only format changes (bold, italics, etc.) in this version. See this version for details.
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Change: Disease.Disease.Hemolytic Disease of the NewbornOften a pregnant woman carries a fetus with a different blood type to herself, and sometimes the mother forms antibodies against
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Change: -lungs.-lungs, skin, and kidneys to remove materials from the blood. CARDIAC OUTPUTThe pumping ability of the heart is a function of the beats per minute (cardiac rate) and the volume of blood ejected per beat (stroke volume). The cardiac rate and stroke volume are regulated by
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Change: -lungs. skin, and kidneys to remove materials from the blood.CARDIAC OUTPUTThe pumping ability of the heart is a function of the beats per minute (cardiac rate) and the volume
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Change: 4. exchange organs to carry out exchanges between the blood and the external enviornment.CARDIAC OUTPUTThe pumping ability of the heart is a function of the beats per minute (cardiac rate) and
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Change: Endotoxin activates the enzyme nitric oxide synthase within macrophages-cells that play an important role in the immune system. Nitric oxide synthase produces nitric oxide, which
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Change: (usually due to a bee sting or penicillin). This results from the widespread release of histamine, which causing allvasodilation vesselsand thus decreases total peripheral resistance The rapid fall of blood pressure in anaphylactic shock is due to openprecapillary up.sphinctors opening all throughout the body. HemophiliaHemophilia
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Change: when the baby is born with Rh positive and the mother is Rh negative which causes an enlargement of the liver and spleen. (associated with
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Change: c. You will have 1000's of cells being destroyed all at once by phagocytic cells and complement proteins and those destroyed cells will clog your kidneysd. It will cause a release of bacteria in the blood that
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Change: People with type A blood have type A antigens on their red blood cells and antibodies in their plasma against the type B antigen. People
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Change: glutinationagglutination is how you know what type of blood you have .Tested by mixing blood with … o Anti-A o Anti-B o Anti-rH. Type O is a universal blood donor If you give someone Type B Blood who is
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Change: fibrin in the presence of thrombin is called_____.a. thrombopoietinb. rythropoietinc. plasma proteind. hemoglobin 19. What is the most commonly used vein for Bypass heart surgerya. femoral veinb. common iliac vein c. great saphenous vein d. radial vein
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Change: fibrin in the presence of thrombin is called_____.a. thrombopoietinb. rythropoietinc. plasma proteind. hemoglobin 19. What is the most commonly used vein for Bypass heart surgery?a. femoral veinb. ulnar veinc. great saphenous veind. common illiac vein
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Change: ab and ce. none of the above3. Edema may be caused by _________ a. high blood pressureb. decreased plasma protein c. leakage of plasma protein into tissue fluid d. blockage of lymphatic vessels e. all of the above4. Each Normal heartbeat is initiated by the:
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