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| Are veins high pressure or low pressure systems? |
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| How does breathing, walking, and valves help the venous system pump blood? |
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| Skeltal muscles milk blood back to the heart, breathing creates a pressure gradient, and valves only allow one way access. |
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| Why are veins called capicitance vessels? |
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| Because of their ability to stretch. |
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| What is the purpose of the lymphatic system? |
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Definition
| TO retreieve excess fluid from tissue spaces and return it to the blodd stream. |
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| Why are you the right lymphatic duct empty into? |
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| What is the purpose of the right lymphatic duct? |
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| To drain the right head, neck, arm, right lung, heart, liver. |
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| What is the purpose of the thoracic duct? |
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| To drain the rest of the body. |
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| Where does you thoracic duct empty into? |
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Definition
| It drains into the left subclavian vein. |
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| What system is responsible for conserving fluid and plasma proteins? |
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| what system is a response for absorbing lipids from the intestinal duct? |
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| What is the purpose of the epitrochlear nodes? |
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Definition
| To drain the AC, hand and lower arm. |
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| What organ destroys old red blood cells, makes antibodies, store new red blood cells, and filterS microorganisms from blood? |
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| What is the function of the thymus in an adult? |
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| What does lymphoid tissue reach adult size? |
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| Describe lymphoid tissue at birth, and describe tissue at age 10 to 11 years? |
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| Well-developed birth and grows rapidly until 10 to 11 years. |
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| Define arteriosclerosis and how is it different from atherosclerosis? |
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Definition
| Arteriosclerosis is the hardening of arteries while atherosclerosis is the deposition of fatty plaques. |
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| Define Leriche's syndrome? |
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Definition
| Impotence associated with aortoiliac occlusion. |
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| If bilateral edema occurs what is it to you about the etioology of the problem? |
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Definition
| Problem is systemic i.e. heart failure if its unilateral its a local obstruction. |
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| How long should capillary refill take, if it's longer? |
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Definition
| 1 to 2 seconds longer indicates vasoconstriction or decreased cardiac output. |
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| Describe how to perform the modified Alan test? |
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Definition
| Occlude the radial and ulnar artery, have the person make a fist, observe blanching while holding radial(thumb artery), and see refill in 1-2 seconds. |
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| When looking at leg why do you see brown discoloration? |
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Definition
| It occurs with chronic venous stasis due to red blood cell degradation, hemosdiereing deposits. |
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| How do you perform the manual compression test? |
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Definition
| while the person is standing, occlude the vericose vein, if valves are good then you will feel no change, if incompentent valves you will feeel a pressure wave. |
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| When looking at the legs, why do you perform the color change test? |
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| This checks for arterial deficit. |
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| How do you perform the color change test (part 1)? |
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Definition
| While supine, raise legs 1 foot, wag feet for 30 seconds, remaining color is his only arterial blood, should be pink but if pale, insufficiency occurs. |
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| How do you perform the color change test (part 2)? |
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| Slide your legs over the side of the table and look into the note time for color change, should take 10 seconds or less. |
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| What is the significance of full bounding pulses in an infant? |
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| Describe the dorsallis pedis and posterior tibial pulses in the aging adult? |
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| Define Raynaud's phenomenon? |
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Definition
| Episodes of abrupt progressive (red, white, blue) color change. |
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| Describe order of color change, in sequence, of raynaud's phenomenon? |
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| White (arteriospasm leading to insufficenicy), blue(cyanosis), red (return of blood). |
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