Please Help me trace this drop of blood

[sthrnprincess]

I am in school and currently taking A&PII. I understand the route of blood through the heart but am needing to trace a drop of blood from the heart to visceral organs in the abdomen....that's where I get lost!!! If someone can help me with this, I am needing to include ALL capillaries, veins, arteries going from the right atrium to the visceral organs in the abdomen and back up to the heart!!! Please.....I have a test on this Thursday!!!

Thanks

sthrnprincess

[fiveofpeep]

Why dont you crack open your book and memorize it?

Start with looking at cardiac circulation and dont forget that blood needs to go and perfuse the coronary arteries too

then check out an image of the arterial system and follow it through to the mesenteric arteries and hepatic portal system (dont forget those)

and then work your way back up the venous system all the way to the vena cava

you probable just need to take the major roads not all the tiny venules and arterioles

it just takes memorization but I think that is the gist of where you need to make sure you stop along the way...

[TheSquire, DNP, APRN, NP]

We're here to help. We're not here to do your homework for you.

[MammaNurse2Be]

When learned the vessels, I gathered my red and blue pens and many pieces of paper. I started with arteries and traced them directly from my book. I then would concentrate on different parts for example the head up or the hepatic portal system. I would draw and label and redraw until I had it memorized. Then from there I would pick the kidney for example and say "where does the blood go as it leaves the kidney until it returns to the heart. I would focus on just this aspect and i did it for each organ. Our circulatory tests in lab went as follows: we would have a pin stuck into a vessel ior vessels in the cadaver. We had 2 minutes and had to answer four question. We had to figure out first if we were in a vein or artery and then the question my ask you the name of the vessel, what does it feed, where does the come from etc. You had to know it. This is one of the those things that the information is quickly available in your book or online without too much effort. After I could visually do this, I would write out long hand a drop of blood from the heart to your toe then to the liver and back to the lungs. I had to go through the whole system several times and if you can do that, you will know your stuff. I am afraid this will take your own effort to do but I have helped you with how I study and I can't give you my notes on it. I forgot to add,we also had to know if the blood was oxyenated or deoxygenated blood depending where it was in the body.