If a Patient's Resting Cardiac Output Is 5

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Essay

If a patient's resting cardiac output is 5.6 l/min and on a stress test she elevated her heart rate to amaximum of 176 beats/min with a stroke volume of 115 ml/beat, what is her cardiac reserve? Show your work.

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Definitions:

Source Amnesia

A type of amnesia in which someone can remember certain information but not the context or source from where that information was acquired.

Retrieval Failure

A phenomenon in which the failure to recall a memory is attributed to the inability to access stored information, often temporary.

Proactive Interference

The process by which old memories impede the recollection of fresh memories.

Encoding Failure

The inability to recall specific information because it was not stored properly in the memory in the first place.