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Cell Death
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II. Physical Injury Extreme temperatures
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Extreme Temperatures Excessive cold
What happens when you are exposed to excessive cold?
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Blood vessels vasoconstrict and inhibit blood supply to cells
Shiver Goosebumps Blood vessels vasoconstrict and inhibit blood supply to cells Can lead to frost bite and hypothermia
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Blood vessels vasoconstrict and inhibit blood supply to cells
Can lead to frost bite and hypothermia
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Vasoconstriction What does the word mean?
VASO: vessel COSTRICTION: make small Vessels can constrict or dilate depending on the situation Do this by changing the lumen
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Vasoconstriction of Peripheral Blood Vessels
Blood is “re-routed” to flow to muscles, etc
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Frostbite
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Different tissue has different time frames before anoxia occurs
Approximately 6 hours for limbs (when blood supply is decreased with a tourniquet) 4 hours for heart 4.5 minutes for brain
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Cold puts things in slow motion
Ex. Child falling into frozen lake for a 30 minutes may be revivable Not good odds for an adult—too much mass NFL player for Buffalo,Kevin Everett, chilled his blood (2007)
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Heat Damage High temperatures (burns) can damage tissue
Causes a hyper-metabolic reaction When a cell’s temperature reaches above 98.6*F, the metabolism of the cell increases Cells work so fast, there is no way to deliver enough O2 to the tissue
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Body switches to anaerobic respiration and builds up too much lactic acid
Burns do not “cook” your cells, they work themselves to death
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Also causes vasodilatation of blood vessels
Body tries to flush away the high temperature and get rid of dead material
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So why are fevers beneficial?
Bacteria loves 98.6*F If temperature is raised, pathogens do not reproduce as quickly Delays potential infection and allows time for wbc to come in
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