PHYSL210A Study Guide - Final Guide: Serca, Inotrope, Tachycardia

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physiology
• Course: PHYSL210A
• Professor: Saswati Das

Document Summary

Examples of self-questioning and self-answering/ problem solving: mixed venous blood passes from the right atrium into the right ventricle through the bicuspid/mitral valve. The blood then passes into the pulmonary trunk from the right ventricle via the pulmonary valve. Blood passes from the left atrium into the left ventricle through the tricuspid valuve. Relate this to the poiseuille"s law/ poiseuille-hagen equation. The chordae tendineae, or heart strings, are cord-like tendons that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart. Systole is the phase of the cardiac cycle when the ventricle is contracting and diastole is the phase of the cardiac cycle when the ventricle is relaxing. If resistance decreased then flow would increase because there is less of a force pushing the blood back from the valve. Pump up the cuff until no sound is heard. Since there is no sound there is no flow.