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Cardio Review PP Flashcards

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Blood Flow Through the Heart: What kind of blood and from where does the right side of the heart receive blood?

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Right side of the heart receives deoxygenated venous blood from all over the body.

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Blood Flow Through the Heart: What anatomical structure does blood pass to enter the right atrium?

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Enters through inferior and superior vena cava.

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Blood Flow Through the Heart: What valve is between the right atrium and right ventricle?

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Atrial contraction forces blood through tricuspid valve into right ventricle.

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Blood Flow Through the Heart: What valve does blood pass through when the right ventricle contracts?

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Right ventricle contracts, forcing blood through pulmonary valve.

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Blood Flow Through the Heart: After leaving the right ventricle, what structure does it enter and where does it go?

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Blood enters pulmonary artery and into the lungs.

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Blood Flow Through the Heart: Where is blood oxygenated? How does it return to the heart?

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Blood is oxygenated in lungs and returned to heart through pulmonary veins. (Left Atrium)

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Blood Flow Through the Heart: What valve separates the left atrium and left ventricle?

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Left atrium contracts forcing oxygenated blood through the mitral valve into left ventricle.

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Blood Flow Through the Heart: Where does blood go after the left ventricle contracts? (Valve and anatomical structure)

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Muscular left ventricle contract, forcing blood through the aortic valve into the aorta.

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Anatomy of the Heart: What is the outer layer of the heart and what is its role?

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Epicardium (outer layer): prevents excess expansion or movement of the heart

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Anatomy of the Heart: What is the middle layer of the heart and what is its role?

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Myocardium (middle layer): initiates contractions driving the cardiac cycle

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Anatomy of the Heart: What is the inner layer of the heart and what is its role?

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Endocardium (inner layer): lines the cavities and valves

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Heart sounds: Describe the S1 sound

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S1: Closure of the atrioventricular (mitral and tricuspid) valves.
-Normal; “lub”

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Heart sounds: Describe the S2 sound

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S2: Closure of semilunar (aortic and pulmonary) valves

-Normal; “dub”

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Heart sounds: Describe the S3 sound

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S3: Extra beat heard after S2

  • Ventricular gallop
  • Typically caused by congestive heart failure
  • May be normal in young children, pregnancy, and well-trained athletes
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Heart sounds: Describe the S4 sound

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S4: Extr beat heard prior to S1

  • Atrial gallop
  • Typically caused by atrial enlargement
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Start of EKGs: Who experimented with zinc and copper connected to a frog’s leg?

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Luigi Galvani

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Start of EKGs: Who found the frog legs kicked when connected to heart?

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Kollicker and Mueller

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Start of EKGs: What does an EKG provide us with?

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EKG provides us with a record of cardiac electrical activity and valuable information about the heart’s function and structure.

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Start of EKGs: What does an EKG record?

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Records electrical activity of contraction of the heart muscle (myocardium)

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Start of EKGs: What has to be electrically stimulated for the heart to contract?

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When myocardium is electrically stimulated, it contracts

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Basics of EKGs: What type of charge is polarized?

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Polarized: negative charge

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Basics of EKGs: What type of charge is depolarized?

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Depolarized: positive charge

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Basics of EKGs: Are the myocytes (heart muscle cells) Polarized or Depolarized while in a resting state?

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Polarized

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Basics of EKGs: How do myocytes become depolarized?

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Become depolarized when their interiors become positive, and cells contract.

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Basics of EKGs: What happens when a wave of depolarization progresses through the heart?

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A wave of depolarization progresses through the heart, causing contraction of the myocardium

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Basics of EKGs: Where does the wave of depolarization begin?

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Begins in right atrium, spreading quickly to left atrium

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Basics of EKGs: After the wave of depolarization happens in the right and left atrium, where does it go next?

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Proceeds through the AV Valves

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Basics of EKGs: What is repolarization?

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Cell interiors return to negative

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Basics of EKGs: What does “late” repolarization look like on EKG?

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Broad hump on EKG is most active phase of “late” repolarization

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Basics of EKGs: Dealing with depolarization, what type of electrode produces a upward deflection?

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A depolarization wave moving towards a positive (+) electrode produces a (+) upward deflection

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Basics of EKGs: What is the heart’s dominant pacemaker? What is this activity called?

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Sinoatrial Node (SA Node) is the heart’s dominant pacemaker.
-Activity is known as "sinus rhythm"
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Basics of EKGs: What is automaticity?

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The ability to initiate an electrical impulse without outside nervous system stimulation.

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Basics of EKGs: What has automaticity to generate pacemaking stimuli?

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Basics of EKGs: What happens when depolarization moves through both atria?

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-As a wave of depolarization moves through both atria, there is a simultaneous wave of atrial contraction.

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Basics of EKGs: What is a P wave represent on an EKG? (2)

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  • Atrial depolarization is recorded as a P wave on an EKG.
  • Represents the depolarization and contraction of both atria that forces blood through the Atrio-Ventricular Node (AV Node).
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Basics of EKGs: What is the role of the Atrio-Ventricular valve? (2)

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  • Atrio-Ventricular valves prevent ventricle-to-atrium blood backflow
  • Electrically insulate the ventricles from the atria
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Basics of EKGs: What lies between the atria and ventricles? What side is each on?

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  • Mitral valve and tricuspid valve lie between the atria and ventricles
  • MitraL = Left
  • TRIcuspid = Right
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Basics of EKGs: How does the pause after the P wave happen? What does that produce?

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  • When wave of atrial depolarization enters the AV node, depolarization slows
  • This produces a brief pause to allow blood to enter ventricles
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Basics of EKGs: What causes this slow conduction through the AV node when depolarization slows after p wave?

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Basics of EKGs: What does the AV node conduct?

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Atrioventricular node (AV Node) is the sole pathway to conduct the depolarization stimulus through the AV valves and to ventricles.

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Basics of EKGs: Where is the AV node located?

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Located just above, but continuous with, a specialized “ventricular conduction system.”

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Basics of EKGs: What shoots through the ventricular conduction system and where does it begin?

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Depolarization shoots rapidly through the ventricular conduction system beginning at the His Bundle

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Basics of EKGs: What does the His Bundle divide into? Name them.

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His Bundle divides into 2 in the interventricular septum

  • Right Bundle Branch (RBB)
  • Left Bundle Branch (LBB)
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Basics of EKGs: What are contained inside the His Bundle and Bundle branches?

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His “Bundle” and “Bundle” Branches are “bundles” of rapidly conducting Purkinje fibers.

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Basics of EKGs: What is the role of the Purkinje fibers?

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Terminal filaments of Purkinje fibers rapidly distribute depolarization to the ventricular myocytes

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Basics of EKGs: What produces the QRS complex on the EKG? What does it initiate?

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Depolarization of the ventricular myocytes produces a QRS complex on and EKG; initiates the contraction of ventricles.

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Basics of EKGs: What is the definition of deflection?

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Deflection: direction in which EKG records

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Basics of EKGs: What does the Q wave look like?

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Q wave: first downward deflection of the complex.

-Not always seen on the EKG

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Basics of EKGs: What does the R wave look like?

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R wave: upward deflection following Q wave

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Basics of EKGs: What does the S wave look like?

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S wave: downward deflection following an R wave

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Basics of EKGs: What is the ST segment? What does it represent? What level is it at?

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ST segment: horizontal baseline following QRS complex.

  • Represents initial phase of ventricular repolarization
  • Should be level with other areas of baseline.
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Basics of EKGs: What does the T wave look like? What does it represent?

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T wave: broad hump following ST segment

-Represents the final “rapid” phase of ventricular repolarization

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Basics of EKGs: why does repolarization occur? (2). How is it accomplished?

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  • Repolarization occurs so that the ventricular myocytes can recover their interior, resting negative charge.
  • Allows for the myocyte to be depolarized again
  • Accomplished by potassium (K+) ion leaving myocytes
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Basics of EKGs: What does the QT interval represent?

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QT interval: represents the duration of ventricular systole

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Basics of EKGs: How is the QT interval measured?

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Measured from beginning of QRS to end of the T wave

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Basics of EKGs: What is the QT interval an indicator for?

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Good indicator of repolarization as it compromises most of the interval

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Basics of EKGs: What is a paramedic tip for interval and segment?

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Interval: contains at least one wave
Segment: portion of baseline

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Basics of EKGs: What is the role of Ca++? How does it achieve this?

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Ca++ causes myocardial contraction.

-Binds with troponin to achieve

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Basics of EKGs: What is the role of of K+?

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Causes repolarization

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Basics of EKGs: What does Na+ produce? What is the exception?

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Na+ ions produce cell-to-cell conduction in the heart

-Except the AV node, which depends on the movement of Ca++ ions

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