Healthcare and medicine

Nerve Regulation of the Heart

  1. Changing the AV Node Delay - Chronotropic Effect
  2. Changing the Heart Rate - Chronotropic Effect
  3. Increasing Ventricular Contractility - Inotropic effect
  4. Autonomic Nervous System Effects on the Heart
  5. Getting a New Heart

Increasing Ventricular Contractility - Inotropic effect Find out how the sympathetic nerves increase the heart's force of contraction and speed of relaxation! Rishi is a pediatric infectious disease physician and works at Khan Academy.

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Increasing Ventricular Contractility - Inotropic effect

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