Cardiovascular physiology XV

1. What is the effect of parasympathetic stimulation on coronary arteries?

Vasodilation

2. What is the effect of norepinephrine through beta receptors in the coronary vessels?

Vasodilation

3. What is the effect of epinephrine through alpha receptors in the coronary vessels?

Vasoconstriction

4. With respect to coronary epicardial to intramuscular arteries, which have a greater preponderance of beta receptors?

Intramuscular arteries

5. What is the technical word for listening to sounds of the body using a stethoscope?

Auscultation

6. What is meant bt shock in cardiovascular physiology?

Inadequate cardiac output / generalized inadequate blood flow

7. In which two conditions, cardiac output is normal but person may be in circulatory shock?

Excess metabolism and abnormal tissue perfusion

8. What happens to the arterial pressure in circulatory shock?

It descrease

9. What is non-progressive stage of shock?

The condition when compensatory mechanisms help to recover from shock

10. If a person is sensitive to an antigen, the person may go into shock. What is this type of shock called?

Anaphylactic shock

11. Name the blood cells that take part in producing anaphylactic shock.

Basophils

 

12. Name the chemical substance that is involved in producing anaphylactic shock.

Histamine

13. What is the sock due to bacterial infection or blood poisoning?

Septic shock

14. Name the substance that is used as a plasma substitute.

Dextran / Ringer lactate

15. What id the other name for large amounts of histamine causing anaphylactic shock?

Histamine shock

(Physiology; UMS 2008)