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Top two vials are venous blood, and the bottom three are arterial blood. Arterial blood is the oxygenated blood in the circulatory system found in the pulmonary vein, the left chambers of the heart, and in the arteries. [1] It is bright red in color, while venous blood is dark red in color (but looks purple through the translucent skin). It is ...
The arteriovenous oxygen difference is usually taken by comparing the difference in the oxygen concentration of oxygenated blood in the femoral, brachial, or radial artery and the oxygen concentration in the deoxygenated blood from the mixed supply found in the pulmonary artery (as an indicator of the typical mixed venous supply). [citation needed]
Mechanistically, the increased heart rate evoked by the Bainbridge reflex acts to increase the transit rate of venous blood across the heart into the arterial side of the cardiovascular system, thereby decreasing blood pressure on the venous side to reach a homeostatic equilibrium. [citation needed]
This curve is an important tool for understanding how our blood carries and releases oxygen. Specifically, the oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve relates oxygen saturation (S O 2 ) and partial pressure of oxygen in the blood (P O 2 ), and is determined by what is called "hemoglobin affinity for oxygen"; that is, how readily hemoglobin acquires ...
Chloride shift (also known as the Hamburger phenomenon or lineas phenomenon, named after Hartog Jakob Hamburger) is a process which occurs in a cardiovascular system and refers to the exchange of bicarbonate (HCO 3 −) and chloride (Cl −) across the membrane of red blood cells (RBCs).
The smaller arteries and arterioles have higher resistance, and confer the main blood pressure drop across major arteries to capillaries in the circulatory system. Illustration demonstrating how vessel narrowing, or vasoconstriction, increases blood pressure. In the arterioles blood pressure is lower than in the major arteries.
Peripheral arterial disease is a blockage in the arteries that carry blood away from your heart. It usually develops in your legs. The strongest risk factors are diabetes and smoking.
Assuming a hemoglobin concentration of 15 g/dL and an oxygen saturation of 99%, the oxygen concentration of arterial blood is approximately 200 mL of O 2 per L. The saturation of mixed venous blood is approximately 75% in health. Using this value in the above equation, the oxygen concentration of mixed venous blood is approximately 150 mL of O ...