Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Trick question about cardiac output.?

The same, in a normal heart. the amount of blood in the ventricle is the stroke volume. If you have a slower heart rate then the stroke volume is apt to be larger. If you have a faster rate the stoke volume is smaller as there is not the same amount of time between beats to fill the ventricle. These are compensatory moves by the system to keep blood pressure within normal limits at all times.

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