1. What will happen to a patient's pulse after heavy exercise.
2. What do you think will happen to the patient's blood pressure after heavy exercise?
3. What can you hypothesize about the relationship between pulse and blood pressure?
4. Why can the heartbeat be detected as a pulse?
5. Which artery is felt when taking the pulse at the wrist?
6. Which artery is felt when taking the pulse at the neck?
7. Would wrist or neck pulse be felt first following a heartbeat? Why?
8. If an accident victim had a severed left subclavian artery, which pulse (neck or wrist) would be most affected? Why?
9. Is there any significant difference in the blood pressure obtained from the upper arm and the forearm?
10. Are the values obtained for the leg the same as those obtained for the arm? Explain any differences.
11. What happened to the pressure value when a volunteer is standing? Explain your answer.
12. Summarize the physiology of blood flow by
- Defining blood flow and naming two factors that influence blood flow
- Describing systolic and diastolic blood pressure
- Describing blood pressure in various vessels of the cardiovascular system
- Describe three factors that affect vascular resistance
13. Describe pulse by:
- Defining pulse
- Stating generally where on the body the pulse may be felt
- Distinguishing between tachycardia and bradycardia
14. Describe the mechanism for measuring systolic and diastolic blood pressure including which blood vessel is commonly used for blood pressure measurements.