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Where fresh blood flows through to get to all body tissues.
Walls are tough and tense to withstand pressure demands
O2 blood
Have elastic fibers which allow their walls to stretch with systole and recoil with diastole |
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Peripheral blood vessels that have grown more rigid with age
This produces the rise in systolic BP |
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| Deposition of fatty plaques on the intima of the arteries |
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indication of peripheral perfusion and cardiac output.
Normal refill 1-2 seconds |
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| Decrease in blood supply intravenously when they exercise. Then when pt sits down and rest the pain in the lower leg will disappear |
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| Deep Vein Thrombophelbitis |
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AKA DVT
Deep vein is occluded by a thrombus causing inflammation, blocked venous return, cyanosis, and edema |
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Low blood o2, cutting off of blood supply.
Deficiency of arterial blood to a body part due to constriction or obstruction of a blood vessel.
Break down of tissue due to loss of arterial blood supply |
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| small oval clumps of lymphatic tissue located at grouped intervals along the lymphatic vessels |
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swelling of extremity due to an obstruction of the lymph channel
Non-pitting |
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| Delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the tissues |
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| beats have weaker amplitude with respiratory inspiration, stronger with expiration |
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Episodes of abrupt progressive tricolor changes of the fingers in response to cold, vibration, or stress.
Fist white from arteriospasm and resulting in deficient of supply
Then becomes blue because of the slight relaxation of the spasm that allow blood to trickle into the capillaries
Finally red due to return of blood |
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| dilated tortuous veins with incompetent valves |
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| Vessels that carry un-oxygenated blood back to the heart |
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Return problem, blood is waiting to return to the heart.
PT becomes edematous |
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| determining the patency of the radial and ulnar arteries by compressing one artery site and observing return of skin color as evidence of patency of the other artery |
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| defect or sac formed by dilation in artery wall due to atherosclerosis, trauma, or congenital defect |
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calf pain that occurs when the foot is sharply dorsiflexed (pushed up, toward the knee)
May occur with DVT, phlebitis, Achilles tendinitis, or muscle injury |
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