2a Flashcards
What are the steps in pulmonary circulation?
-deoxygenated blood exits the right side of the heart through the pulmonary SL valve
- gas exchange occurs in the lungs
- oxygenated blood goes through pulmonary veins to the left side of the heart
What are the steps in systemic circulation
- blood leaves the left ventricle through the aorta and is delivered to the tissues
- tissues take O2 and a gas exchange happens at the tissues
- deoxygenated blood returns to the right side of the heart to the superior or inferior vena cava
What are the steps in the cardiac cycle?
- deoxygenated blood enters the right atrium through the superior or inferior vena cava
- blood goes to the coronary sinus
- blood goes from the RA to the RV through the tricuspid AV valve
- pulmonary trunk takes RV blood into arteries
- blood leaves the heart through the pulmonary SL valve
- Blood is taken by arteries to the lungs where gas exchange occurs
- blood is now oxygenated
- blood is taken through pulmonary veins to LA
- blood goes through the bicuspid AV/ mitral valve into the LV
- blood is pumped from the ventricle by Aorta into the tissues
- tissues take in O2 and gas exchange occurs
- deoxygenated blood is carried by veins to the heart where the cycle takes over
What is coronary circulation?
blood circulation to and from heart tissues
What do coronary arteries do?
- branch from the aorta off of the LV
- carries oxygenated blood to the musculature of the heart where gas exchange occurs
What do coronary veins do?
-carry deoxygenated blood
-converge at coronary sinus and drain into the RA
What type of blood does the right side of the heart deal with?
Deoxygenated blood
What type of blood does the left side of the heart deal with?
oxygenated blood
Where do veins carry blood?
to the heart
Where do arteries carry blood?
away from the heart
Can the atrium and ventricles contract at the same time?
no
Can the atrium and ventricles relax at the same time?
yes
Can the AV and SL valves be open at the same time
no
Can the AV and SL valves be closed at the same time?
yes
What pumps together?
The atriums pump together and the ventricles pump together
Do the atria stop receiving blood?
no, the atria always receive blood since they don’t have valves
What region of the heart has the thickest wall?
left ventricle
What is the base of the heart made of?
receiving chambers
What is the apex of the heart made of?
pumping changes
What is the pericardium?
-mechanical protection for heart and big vessels
What does the pericardium do?
- protects heart
- lubricates to prevent friction between the heart and surrounding structures
What is the pericardium made of?
- fibrous pericardium
-parietal pericardium - pericardial cavity
- visceral pericardium
What is the fibrous pericardium?
attaches pericardium to diaphragm and great vessels
What is the parietal pericardium?
- closest to fibrous pericardium, furthest away from heart
What is the pericardial Cavity?
- filled with serous fluid to prevent friction
What is the visceral pericardium?
the section closest to the heart and furthest from the fibrous layer (epicardium)
What is pericarditis?
- inflammation of the pericardium resulting in excess fluid leaving blood and filling a pericardial cavity
- limits hearts movements and prevents chambers from filling properly
- can be fatal
What are the great vessels?
- arteries ( aorta, pulmonary trunk + arteries)
- veins ( vena cava and pulmonary veins)
What are arteries?
attach to the heart at the ventricles and carry blood away from the heart
- carries deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle to the lungs
What does the aorta do?
transports oxygenated blood from the left ventricle to systemic tissues
What is myocardial infration?
- the death of a region of heart muscle due to the loss of blood flow to the area, due to an obstruction of coronary arteries
- most commonly due to thrombosis (blood clot)
- angioplasty procedure opens narrowed or blocked coronary arteries through a balloon catheter or by inserting an expandable balloon
What do veins do?
great veins attach to heart and carry blood towards it and intro atria
What does the vena cava do?
- carries deoxygenated blood to the RA
What do pulmonary veins do?
drain oxygenated blood into the Left atrium
Where do great veins attach?
the atria
What is in the right atria?
- vena cava
- coronary sinus
What is in the left atria?
-pulmonary veins (4 openings)
What separates the atrias?
interatrial septum
- fossa ovalis present on right side as ruminant of fetal foramen ovule
- interior contains pectinate muscles compose of parallel ridges
Where do great arteries attach?
ventricles
What does the right ventricle do?
take unoxygenated blood into the pulmonary trunk to be taken to lungs
What does the left ventricle do?
-pumps oxygenated blood into the aorta for systemic circulation
What separates the ventricles?
-interventricular septum
- contains papillary muscles with chordae tendineae to AV valves
What do av valves work with?
other av valves
Where is the bicuspid valve?
left atria
where is the tricuspid valve?
right atria
Where is the pulmonary SL vlave
on the right to carry deoxygenated blood
Where is the aortic SL valve?
on the left to carry oxygenated blood
What do valves do?
prevent the backflow of blood
What does the fibrous skeleton do?
-provides structural support at the boundary of atria and ventricles
- functionally and physically separates atrium from ventricles
- acts as an electrical insulator which prevents the atrium and ventricles from contracting at the same time by synchronizing contractions
- forms fibrous support for valve stabilizing them and acting as an attachment site for cardiac muscle
What is the atrial contraction pattern?
compresses wall of chambers to move blood into ventricles and narrows heart
What is the ventricular contraction pattern?
contraction begins at apex and compresses superiorly into great arteries shortening heart