Exam 15: Blood

A person with septicemia is at risk for septic shock.

What is a pulse? Name two places in the head and neck and two places on the upper and lower extremities where a pulse can be felt.

Match each term with its corresponding definition or description. -Blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart

What is an aneurysm?

Match each term with its corresponding definition or description. -The outermost layer of the blood vessel

Match each term with its corresponding definition or description. -Structure in the fetus that shunts blood from the right atrium to the left atrium

Incompetent valves in veins can make it difficult for blood to return to the heart.

Blood pressure in the inferior and superior venae cavae is essentially zero.

Because many medications are inactivated by liver enzymes, they are almost always administered intravenously or by injection into a muscle rather than orally. Explain why these medications must be given this way.

Describe the structure of the blood vessels.

The ductus arteriosus acts as a shunt for blood around the immature fetal liver.

The condition in which an artery becomes abnormally widened due to a weakness in the arterial wall is called

The first blood vessel of systemic circulation is the

Match each disorder or condition with its corresponding description or definition. -An abnormal widening of the artery caused by weakness of the arterial wall

If a person has a severe allergy to bee stings, one possible result of a bee sting might be neurogenic shock.

Which of the following is not true of capillaries?

Failure of the sympathetic nervous system to maintain proper muscle tone in the arteries can lead to hypovolemic shock.

Which blood vessel carries blood toward the capillaries?

Arteries and arterioles both distribute blood from the heart to the capillaries.

A strong heart beat and normal arterial blood pressure assist in getting venous blood back to the heart.