For each of the following situations, describe the anticipated effect on blood pressure and the physiological basis of the response: (1) anticipation to giving a lecture/speech/presentation, (2) cardiac arrest, (3) atherosclerosis, and (4) femoral artery bleed.
1: Anticipation to giving a lecture/speech/presentation causes fight and flight response due to increased activity of sympathetic nervous system which leads to increase in blood pressure.
2: In Cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy happens due to thickening of heart muscles caused by increased blood pressure.
3: In atherosclerosis the arteries gets narrow due to formation of plaques on the walls of arteries, this leads to increase in blood pressure.
4: Femoral artery bleed will lead to loss of blood, due to loss of blood the blood volume decreases and this will cause decrease in blood pressure.
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