RIU 324 Study Guide - Final Guide: Pulse Pressure, Hemodynamics, Vascular Resistance

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The study of the physical principles of blood circulation. Assumption of steady state flow: heart, arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venules, and veins, the driving pressure for blood flow is highly pulsatile, as shown in the figure below. Since the driving pressure is dynamic, there are many changes which affect flow relative to the simplified equations introduced in the previous chapter. B: changes with pulsatile flow include: variable velocity, cardiac output, pulse pressure, mean arterial pressure, peripheral resistance, vasomotor tone, compliance of aorta and major arteries, presence of disease , the arteries are elastic and not rigid conduits for flow. Pressure volume relationship (compliant vessel: the simplified law expresses that the rate of change in pressure is proportional to the rate of change in volume. As seen by this graph, the compliance of the vessel (non-rigid flow conduit) is not linear, explaining the naming of the equation as.

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