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?
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?
