Cardiac Cycle and Sounds Flashcards
When do the electrical events in the heart occur compared to the heart’s actual contraction?
BEFORE
The P wave is associated with?
Atrial depolarization
What initiates the P wave?
SA node
Describe the conduction velocity in the AV node
It is slower, so there is a pause between depolarization of the atria and ventricles
The slow conduction velocity of the AV node leads to what part of an EKG?
PR interval
Once the AV node transmits the action potential, where does it go?
- Down the interventricular septum
2. Then starting at the apex back up both ventricular walls
The QRS complex represents?
Ventricular depolarization
What does the ST segment represent?
Time the entire ventricle is in the plateau phase of the action potential
The 1st cell to depolarize in the heart is the ____ to repolarize and vice versa
LAST
The T wave indicates?
Ventricular repolarization
Ventricular repolarization (T wave) occurs when compared to actual ventricular relaxation?
BEFORE
Aortic pressure starts on a slow decline, what is the drop in pressure due to?
Peripheral run-off (blood moving into the periphery and away from aorta)
What determines how fast or how slow the aortic pressure declines?
TPR - total peripheral resistance
- How fast blood can move into periphery
If the TPR is HIGH, what will the aortic pressure decline show?
The blood movement will be SLOW, thus the decline in the aortic pressure will be SLOW too
Aortic pressure at its lowest point =
diastolic blood pressure
Aortic pressure at its highest point =
systolic blood pressure
When does the decline in the aortic pressure stop?
When the ventricular pressure rises enough to open the aortic valve and force blood into the aorta
At their peak, is ventricular or aortic pressure highest?
Ventricular pressure - needs to be in order to get blood to move into the aorta
As the aortic pressure declines towards the end of systole, there is a blip and it rises slightly. What causes that?
Closure of the aortic valve
Ventricular pressure and atrial pressure both begin very close to what value?
Zero
A wave of atrial pressure is due to?
Atrial contraction
C wave of atrial pressure is due to?
AV valve bulging into the atria during the ventricular isovolumetric contraction
V wave of atrial pressure is due to?
Venous return into the atria
What is the order of the atrial/jugular pressure waves?
ACV
What does the ventricular pressure have to be so that blood will flow into the ventricles from the atria?
LOWER than that pressure of the atria
Why does the jugular pressure curve look like the atrial pressure curve just slightly higher?
There is no valve between the jugular vein and atrium
To start the cardiac cycle, where is the ventricular volume?
Near its max, as blood has been filling the ventricles during diastole
With _____ there is a slight increase in ventricular volume
atrial contraction