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BE ModuleII Ktunotes - in PDF
BE ModuleII Ktunotes - in PDF
Syllabus
Heart and cardiovascular system (brief discussion), electro conduction system of the heart.
Electrocardiography, ECG machine block diagram, ECG lead configurations, ECG recording
system, Einthoven triangle, analysis of ECG signals. Measurement of blood pressure: Direct,
indirect and relative methods of blood pressure measurement, auscultatory method,
oscillometric and ultrasonic non- invasive pressure measurements. Measurement of blood
flow: Electromagnetic blood flow meters and ultrasonic blood flow meters.
Cardio vascular system can be viewed as closed hydraulic system with 4 chamber pump.
It is mainly used for transportation of oxygen, Carbon dioxide, numerous chemical
compounds and the blood cells.
In some part of the system diameter of the arteries are changed to control pressure.
Heart is an isolated two stage synchronized chamber
1. The first stage is to collect blood from the system and pump it in to 2nd stage.
2. The second stage then pump these blood to the system
Structure of Heart
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One of the two stage pump (Right side) collect fluid from the system and pump it
through oxygenation system(Lungs).
Other side pump receives blood from oxygenation system (Lungs) and pump blood to
main hydraulic system.
Blood act as communication and supply network for all parts of the body
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The blood is carried out to the various parts of the body through blood vessels. There are
three types of blood vessels
1) Arteries--- Thick, Carries oxygenated blood
2) Veins--- Thin, De-oxygenated blood
3) Capillaries---Smallest, Last level of blood vessels, 800000 km of capillaries
Heart pumps blood through the pulmonary circulation to the lungs and through the
systemic circulation to the other parts of the body.
1) Pulmonary circulation
2) Systemic circulation
In pulmonary circulation, venous blood (de-oxygenated) flows from right ventricle
through pulmonary artery to lungs.
The arterial (oxygenated) blood flows to left atrium through pulmonary veins.
In systemic circulation blood flows from left auricle to left ventricle and it is pumped
to aorta and its branches
The heart is able to create it's own electrical impulses and control the route the
impulses take via a specialised conduction pathway.
The conducting system of the heart consists of cardiac muscle cells and
conducting fibers that are specialized for initiating impulses and conducting them rapidly
through the heart.
They initiate the normal cardiac cycle and coordinate the contractions of cardiac
chambers. Both atria contract together, as do the ventricles, but atrial contraction occurs first.
The conducting system provides the heart its automatic rhythmic beat. For the
heart to pump efficiently and the systemic and pulmonary circulations to operate in
synchrony, the events in the cardiac cycle must be coordinated.
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The left and right bundle branches
Electrical impulses from your heart muscle (the myocardium) cause your heart to
beat (contract). This electrical signal begins in the sinoatrial (SA) node, located at the top of
the right atrium.
The SA node is sometimes called the heart's "natural pacemaker." When an
electrical impulse is released from this natural pacemaker, it causes the atria to contract.
The electrical stimulus from the SA node eventually reaches the AV node and is
delayed briefly so that the contracting atria have enough time to pump all the blood into the
ventricles.
The impulse leaves the AV node through bundle of His. The fibers in this bundle
known as Purkinje fibers after a short distance split into two branches to initiate action
potentials simultaneously in the two ventricles.
III. Electrocardiography
Bio electric potentials generated by heart muscles are called Electro Cardio Gram.
It is sometimes called EKG(Electro Kardio Gram)
Electrocardiography (ECG) is an interpretation of the electrical activity of the heart over a
period of time.
The recording produced by this noninvasive procedure is termed as electrocardiogram (also
ECG or EKG).
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IV. ECG machine block diagram
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of the amplifier during change in the position of the lead switch. It also includes a
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speed control circuit for the chart driver motor.
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V. ECG lead configurations
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To record ECG 12 electrodes connected to the body of the patient. Electrodes connected to
ECG machine using wires called leads. Leads are electrodes which measure the difference in
electrical potential between either:
1. Two different points on the body (bipolar leads)
2. One point on the body and a virtual reference point with zero electrical potential, located in
the center of the heart (unipolar leads).
Classification
The Standard Limb Leads are used to display a graph of the potential difference recorded
between two limbs at a time. In these leads, one limb carries a positive electrode and the
other limb, a negative one.
The three limb electrodes, I, II and III form a triangle (Einthoven’s Equilateral Triangle), at
the right arm (RA), left arm (LA) and left leg (LL).
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Lead I has a positive electrode on the left arm and a negative electrode on the right arm.
Lead I is a bipolar, indirect lead.
Lead II has a positive electrode on the right arm and a negative electrode on the left foot.
Lead II is a bipolar, indirect lead.
Lead III has a positive pole on the left foot and a negative pole on the left hand. Lead III is a
bipolar, indirect lead.
The three limb electrodes, I, II and III form a triangle (Einthoven’s Equilateral Triangle), at
the right arm (RA), left arm (LA) and left leg (LL).
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2. Augmented Limb Leads (Unipolar): aVR, aVL & aVF
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The recording of electrical activity associated with the functioning of the heart is known as
electrocardiogram.
It’s a quasi periodical, rhythmically repeating signal synchronized by the function of the
heart, which act as a generator of bioelectric events.
This generated signal can be described by means of an electric dipole. i.e. pole consisting of
positive and negative pair of charge.
The dipole generates a field vector changing periodically in time and space and its effects are
measured on the surface.
The waveform thus recorded standardized in terms of amplitude and phase relationship and
any deviation from this reflect the presence of abnormality.
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1. PR Interval
2. QRS Complex
Represents the time taken by the heart impulse to travel first through the intro-ventricular
system and then through the free walls of the ventricles. ventricular contraction
Measured from the onset of Q wave to end of S wave.
Duration is between 0.05 and 0.10 secs.
Amplitude is 1 mv
Since the ventricles contain greater muscle mass than the atria, the QRS complex is larger
than the P wave.
• Blood flow is the one of the important physiological parameter and the most difficult to
measure accurately.
• The average velocities of blood flow vary over a wide range depending on diameter of blood
vessel.
• There are many techniques for measuring the blood flow and velocity.
• They are categorized into
1. Invasive (surgical).
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2. Non invasive (through the skin).
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Need for blood flowmeter
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• Inspection for block in blood flow.
• Testing artificial blood vessels during organ transplantation.
Structure
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Basically, all modern flowmeters consist of a generator of AC, a probe assembly, a series of
capacitance coupled amplifiers, a demodulator, a DC amplifier and a suitable recording
device.
Basing shape of the energizing current waveform for the electromagnet 2 types of EM
Flowmeters are :
Probe magnet is energized with a sine wave and the induced voltage will also be sinusoidal.
Since the flow of blood acts as a secondary terminal of a transformer w.r.t probe magnet, an
additional artifact voltage induced is called transformer voltage.
This voltage is 90° out of phase with the original signal corresponding to flow of blood .
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A method for eliminating transformer voltage by using a gated amplifier(amplify signal only
during flow induced voltage is maximum).
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This type of instrument is known as 'gated sine wave flowmeter',
Transducer
•consist of an electromagnet, a pair of electrodes.
•Electrodes may be in contact with either flowing blood or outer surface of the blood vessel
Preamplifier
•The induced voltage pick up by the electrodes, is given to a low noise differential amplifier
through a capacitive coupling
•Must have a very high CMRR and input impedance
Gating circuit
•It helps to remove spurious voltages generated during magnet current reversal
•The gating action is controlled by the circuit which provides an excitation current to the
electromagnet
Band pass filter
•It is an active RC band pass amplifier , which selectively pass through it the amplified
square wave signal
•Peak response is kept for 4(X)Hz
Detector
•A phase sensitive detector is used to recover the signal
•It also helps in the rejection of interfering voltages at frequencies below the carrier
frequency
Low pass filter and output stage
•Demodulated signal is given to an RC LPF, which provides a uniform frequency response
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and a linear phase shift
•Followed by an integrator provide output corresponding to the mean flow
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• The square wave input to the power amplifier stage which supplies current to the
electromagnet is fed from a free running multivibrator
Zero flow reference line
• it establish the signal corresponding to zero-flow before measurement.
The systolic pressure is the maximum pressure in an artery at the moment when the heart is
beating and pumping blood through the body.
The diastolic pressure is the lowest pressure in an artery in the moments between beats when
the heart is resting.
Both the systolic and diastolic pressure measurements are important
If either one is raised, it means you have high blood pressure (hypertension).
1. Indirect
2. Direct
Indirect Method
1. AUSCULTATORY METHOD
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the doctor measuring blood pressure uses a
stethoscope, placed over your arm, to listen
for the sound of blood pulsing through the
arteries.
That first sound of rushing blood refers to
the systolic blood pressure; once the sound fades, the second number indicates the diastolic
pressure.
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It is a non-invasivc technique to measure blood velocity in a particular vessel from the
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surface of the body.
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lt is based on the analysis of echo signals from the erythrocytes in the vascular structures.
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Because of the Doppler effect, the frequency of these echo signals changes relative to the
frequency which the probe transmits.
The Doppler frequency shift is a measure of the size and direction of the flow velocity.
The principle is illustrated in Fig.
The incident ultrasound is scattered by the blood cells and the scattered wave is received by
the second transducer. The frequency shift due to the moving scatterers is proportional to the
velocity of the scatterers. Alteration in frequency occurs first as the ultrasound arrives at the
‘scattered and second as it leaves the scattcrer.
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The piezo-electric crystal A is electrically excited to generate ultrasonic waves, which enter
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the blood. Ultrasound scattered from the moving blood cells excites the receiver crystal.
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The electrical signal received at B consists of a large amplitude excitation frequency
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component, which is directly coupled from the transmitter to the receiver, plus a very small
amplitude Doppler-shifted component scattered from the blood cells.
The detector produces a sum of the difference of the frequencies at I). The low-pass filter
selects the difference frequency, resulting in audio frequencies at E. Each time the audio
wave crosses the zero axis, a pulse appears at G. The filtered output level at II will be
proportional to the blood velocity. The following two pitfalls are encountered in Doppler
ultrasonic blood flowmeters.
The transit-time ultrasonic flow meter is an instrument designed for measuring the volume
flow rate in clean liquids or gases. It consists of a pair of ultrasonic transducers mounted
along an axis aligned at an angle _ with respect to the fluid-flow axis, as shown in Figure.
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of the beams travelling upstream and downstream, and measurement of this difference allows
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the flow velocity to be calculated. The typical magnitude of this time difference is 100 ns in a
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total transit time of 100 μs, and high-precision electronics are therefore needed to measure it.
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