FRCA Notes

Cardiovascular Physiology

  • Cardiac action potentials
  • The ECG
  • Cardiac muscle contraction

  • Control of blood pressure
  • Baroreceptors
  • Hormonal control of cardiac function
  • Control of cardiac output
  • The Valsalva manoeuvre

  • Frank-Starling relationship
  • Fluid responsiveness
  • The cardiac cycle
  • Cardiac pressure-volume loops
  • CVP

  • Peripheral circulation
  • SVR
  • Venous return
  • Capillary dynamics
  • Coronary circulation
  • Pulmonary circulation
  • Pulmonary artery wedge pressure
  • Portal circulations

  • Organ oxygen consumption
  • Exercise physiology

  • The lymphatic system