Summary Active Recall Questions

The heart and blood vessels

 What is the purpose of the heart?
 Why is the heart described as a double circulatory system?
 What does the right ventricle do? What takes place at the lungs?
 What does the left ventricle do?
 What does the aorta do?
 What does the vena cava do?
 What does the pulmonary artery do?
 Is blood in the pulmonary artery oxygenated or deoxygenated?
 What does the pulmonary vein do?
 Is the blood in the pulmonary vein oxygenated or deoxygenated?
 What do the coronary arteries do?
 What is the trachea?
 What are the bronchi?
 What are the alveoli?
 Is there a capillary network surrounding the alveoli? Why?
 How is the natural rate of the heart maintained? What type of cells?
 Where is the pacemaker found in the heart?
 What can be artificial pacemakers be used for?
 What are the 3 types of blood vessels in the body?
 Discuss arteries
 Discuss veins
 Discuss capillaries
 Which has valves? Muscle tissue? Connective tissue? Narrower lumen?
 Why do arteries have a narrower lumen?
 What is blood? What is plasma?
 What do red blood cells do?
 What do white blood cells do?
 What do platelets do?
 What is coronary heart disease? What gets build-up? Leading to what?
 What do we use stents for?
 What are statins used for?
 Why might the heart’s valves go wrong?
 What might happen if the valves are faulty?
 How can we deal with faulty valves?
 How can we deal with heart failure?
 When can we use artificial hearts?