Cardiovascular Flashcards
What does stationary blood lead to?
- Rapid depltetion of nutrients and oxygen
- Build up of waste
- Loss of transportation function
- Homrones can’t reach their targets
- Cell defense unable to perform it’s functions
How much blood does the heart pump per day?
8000 litres
What are the two circuits involving the heart?
Pulmonary and systemic
What are the 5 main heart structures?
- Great vessels
- Chambers
- Heart wall
- Pericardium
- Skeleton
What is the pericardium?
A thin fibroelastic sac composed of two layers that separate the heart from the surrounding mediastinal structures.
What is the action of the systemic circulation, which side of the heart is used to pump it and from which great vessel does the blood exit?
- Blood from heart is pumped to the organs/tissues & back
- Left hand side
- Exit via aorta
What is the action of the pulmonary circulation, which side of the heart is used to pump it and from which great vessel does the blood exit?
- Blood from the heart is pumped to the lungs and back
- Right hand side
- Exits via pulmonary trunk
What is the distribution of arteries and veins in regards to the systemic and pulmonary circuits?
Veins - always bring the blood to the heart
Arteries - always move the blood from the heart
Start: Recently oxygenated blood from the lungs.
1. Travel to the heart via the pulmonary VEINS
2. Pumped to the cells from the heart via systemic ARTERIES
3. Oxygen is used, now the blood is returned to the heart via systemic VEINS
4. Oxygen depleted blood than travels to the lungs via pulmonary ARTERIES.
What colour is oxygen rich blood on diagrams?
Red
What colour is oxygen depleted blood on diagrams ?
Blue
Where is the heart located?
- In the thorax
- Mediastinum
- Sits on diaphragm
How many chamber does the heart have?
4 total, 2 on each side
What separates upper and lower chambers?
Valves
What are the four graate vessels of the heart?
- Aorta
- Superior & inferior vena cavae
- Pulmonary artery
- Pulmonary veins
What is the function of the upper chamber of the heart?
Atria - the upper chambers of the hearts - receive blood and pump it into lower chambers. They are thin walled.
What is the function of the lower chambers?
Ventricles - the lower chambers of the herat - receive blood from atria and pump blood to the aorta or pulmonary artery
What valve separates the right atrium from right ventricle?
Tricuspid
What valve separates the right ventricle and pulmonary artery?
Pulmonary
How can we describe the pericardium?
A tipple layer sack that surrounds the heart - fibrous on either side and serous in the inner
What is a myocardium?
It is the middle heart muscle layer
What do we know about myocardial cells?
They are multinucleated cells, branched with numerous mitochondria and striations. Inbetween they have intercalated discs.
What is the function of both desmosomes and fascia adherentes?
Anchor the myocardial cells to one other
What is the function of gap junctions?
To act as direct communication between cells and propagate electrical impulses
What is the endocardium?
It is mesothelium of squamous cells that linnes inner surface of myocardium
What are the two function of heart valves?
- Prevent backflow of blood
2. Seal the chambers in response to pressure changes
What separates the two halves of the heart?
The septum
What are the coronary arteries?
They are arteries that run around the heart and provide oxygen and nutrients to the myocardial cells
What is a myocardial infraction?
It is essentially the death of muscle cells due to lack of oxygen and nutrients due to blockage in coronary arteries
What are the two major nodes?
Sinoatrial and atrioventricular
How does the impulse travel through out the heart?
- SA node - has pacemaker cells - which initiate thr impulse
- Atrial contraction is triggered
- The signal is passed through atria to a 2nd node (AV node)
- The signal travels down bundles of specialise dmuscle cells
- The main bundle than separates itno left and right
- This way the signal can reach the most distant muscle cells of the ventricles
What are the functions of the lymphatic system?
- Absorption
2. Immune cell transit
What are the 5 main types of blood vessels?
- Arteries
- Arterioles
- Capillaries
- Vanules
- Veins