Laws regarding Blood pressure

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  • Definitons & Laws regarding Blood Pressure
    • Marey's Law
      • There's an inverse relationship between blood pressure and heart rate
    • Bainbridge Reflex
      • As the right atrium fills with blood, stretch detecores initiate the BB relfex
        • This then clears any 'extra' blood in the heart
    • Frank Starling's Law of the Heart
      • The force of ventricular contraction is determined by the length of the cardiac muscle fibres
    • Stroke Volume
      • Blood ejected from a ventricle from one contraction
    • End diastolic Volume
      • Volume of blood in the ventricle when full
    • End systolic Volume
      • Volume of blood left in ventricle after blood is ejected out

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