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Title
Demonstrate understanding of animal blood and lymph circulatory
systems
Level
4
Credits
10
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: describe the
components of the blood vascular system and the blood
circulation; describe the components and function of the
lymphatic system; and describe the effluent and affluent
drainage areas of specified lymph nodes.
Classification
Animal Product Examination Services > Animal Product
Examination - Generic
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
Knowledge of bodily circulatory systems is required to make assessments of the
suitability of carcasses and offal for human consumption.
2
Knowledge requirements of this unit standard may be demonstrated off the job using
diagrams of animal carcasses and their parts.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
This unit standard is
Describe the components of the blood vascular system and the blood circulation.
expiring
Evidence requirements
Outcome 1
1.1
Components of the blood vascular system are listed and described.
Range
1.2
The structure and operation of the heart is described.
Range
1.3
heart, arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venules, veins, blood.
pericardium, epicardium, endocardium, myocardium, left and right
atriums, left and right ventricles, interventricular septum, chordae
tendineae, atrioventricular valves, aorta, semilunar valve,
pulmonary artery, pulmonary semilunar valve, pulmonary vein,
vena cava.
The functions of the constituents of blood are described.
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Range
1.4
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plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, proteins.
Blood circulatory systems and their main functions are described in terms of the
general systemic circulation and the purpose of the pulmonary and portal
circulations.
Outcome 2
Describe the components and function of the lymphatic system.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Components of the lymphatic system and its structures are described.
Range
lymph vessels, lymph, lymph nodes, lymphoid tissue, lymph ducts.
2.2
Lymph system is described in terms of relationship between lymph nodes and
lymph ducts.
2.3
Terminal lymph nodes are identified and their significance to meat inspection
explained.
Range
2.4
internal iliac, renal, left bronchial, prescapular, prepectoral, lumbar
chain, hepatics, mediastinals, mesenteric, atlantal.
Functions of the lymphatic system are explained.
Range
disease control, control of body fluid levels, transport of waste
materials.
Outcome 3
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Evidence requirements
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3.1
Effluent and affluent drainage areas are described for specified lymph nodes.
Describe the effluent and affluent drainage areas of specified lymph nodes.
Range
submaxillary (mandibular) retropharyngeal, parotid, atlantal (lateral
retropharyngeal), anterior mediastinal, middle mediastinal,
posterior mediastinal, prescapular (superficial cervical),
prepectoral, left bronchial, right bronchial, right apical, hepatics,
renal, lumbar chain, ischiatic, internal iliac, precrural (subiliac),
popliteal, supramammary or superficial inguinal, mesenteric.
Replacement information
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This unit standard, unit standard 13498, unit standard
13499, unit standard 24501, and unit standard 24506
were replaced by unit standard 27751.
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This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
23 April 1998
31 December 2014
Review
2
23 June 2000
31 December 2014
Revision
3
20 August 2001
31 December 2014
Rollover and
Revision
4
20 June 2006
31 December 2014
Review
5
25 February 2008
31 December 2014
Review
6
19 July 2012
31 December 2014
Reinstatement
7
20 March 2015
31 December 2017
Rollover
8
17 September 2015
31 December 2018
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
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Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
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NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
This unit standard is
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
expiring
to this standard are outlined in the Consent
and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
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