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Pathophysiology/Circulatory Shock

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Positive inotropic agent; improves contractility.
Crystalloid solution used to not upset cell membrane structure.
Increase in sympathetic activity by beta adrenergic receptors causes this change in heart rate.
About this percentage of blood supply can be removed without affecting cardiac output or arterial pressure.
Type of hypertrophy; increase in wall thickness, as occurs in hypertension.
When right heart failure occurs in response to chronic pulmonary disease, it is called this.
Type of heart shock. most common cause is myocardial infarction.
Myocardial reaction by which the heart compensates for an increase in workload or exercise.
Peptide hormone secreted by ventricles in response to increased ventricular pressure. abbreviation.
Type of shock characterized by diminished blood volume, inadequate filling of vascular compartment.
Transudation of fluid into pleural cavity or the peritoneal cavity.
Surgical procedure designed to restore the size and shape of ventricle; possible alternative to transplantation.
Drug prevents blood from clotting.
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Called cardiac __________; heart contracts in an uncoordinated manner; reduced systolic function.
Substances released from endothelial cells, and are potent vasoconstrictor peptides.
This volume causes an increase in the length of myocardial muscle fibers; end ____________ volume.
Peptide hormone secreted from atrial cells in response to stretch or fluid overload. abbreviation.
Type of respiration in heart failure; increase in depth and rate of breathing, followed by decrease to apnea.
Type of shock caused by decreased sympathetic control of blood vessel tone; defect in vasomotor center.
Another term for Digoxin.
This effusion occurs as the excess fluid in lung interstitial spaces crosses visceral pleura.
Type of hypertrophy; disproportionate increase in muscle length as occurs in dilated cardiomyopathy.
____________ nocturnal dyspnea. Attack of dyspnea during sleep. person awakes sitting up and it resolves.
Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty; or simply this.
Type of shock; acute failure of vascular system to supply peripheral tissues and organs.
Shortness of breath that happens when an individual is supine. Type of breathing.
Positive inotropic agent; increases movement of calcium into myocardial cells during action potential.
Another cardiac glycoside
Type of cyanosis caused by conditions such as low output failure; delivery of poorly oxygenated blood to tissues.
Condition of malnutrition and tissue wasting occurring in people with end stage heart failure.
Term used also for vasodilatory shock associated with infection.
Swelling of tissue; fluid build up.