Cardiovascular Flashcards
What nerve crosses the lateral borders of the pericardium?
Phrenic nerve
What is the function of the epicardium on the surface of the heart>
To secrete pericardial fluid
What is cardiac tamponade
Where pressure around the heart builds due to the pericardial cavity filling with fluid which can prevent contraction
What is pericardiocentesis? How is the entry point for it indicated?
Where a needle is inserted via the infrasternal angle as indicated by the xiphoid process and drains fluid in the pericardial cavity
What manouvere is performed by surgeons allowing them to identify and isolate the great vessels of the heart for open heart surgery?
Transverse pericardial sinus
What groove of the heart does the right coronary artery lie in?
Coronary groove
What groove of the heart does the LAD artery lie in?
Anterior interventricular groove
What do all of the coronary veins drain into?
The coronary sinus
What are some of the features of the right atrium?
Opening for SVC and IVC
Opening for the coronary sinus
Oval fossa
Crista terminalis (smooth muscle ridge)
Describe the heart valves in terms of types of cusps
Pulmonary; semilunar with anterior right and left cusps
Aortic; semilunar with anterior right, left and posterior cusps
Tricuspid; leaflet, tendinous cords, papillary muscle, anterior, posterior and septal cusps
Mitral; leaflet, anterior and posterior cusps
Give some features of the interior left atrium
Openings for pulmonary veins
Remains of foramen ovale
Name the places to ausculate for the 4 valves?
Aortic; right 2nd intercostal sternal edge
Pulmonary; left 2nd intercostal sternal edge
Tricuspid; left 4th intercostal sternal edge
Mitral; apex beat 5th intercostal mid clavicular USUALLY
What valves make the 1st heart sound? Lub
Tricuspid and mitral closing
What valves make the second heart sound? Dub
Pulmonary and aortic closing
At what vertebral levels do the sympathetic nerves exit the spinal cord?
T1-L2/3
At what vertebral level are the cardiopulmonary splanchnic nerves exiting the spinal cord?
T1-T5
What cranial nerves are responsible for parasympathetic stimulation?
CN III occulomotor nerve
CN VII facial nerve
CN IX glossopharyngeal nerve
CN X vagus nerve
Define radiating central chest pain
Where pain is felt in the centre of patients chest and felt spreading to another location, commonly back, jaw, neck
What part of the brain is responsible for processing somatic sensations?
Postcentral gyrus of the parietal lobe (sensory strip )
What part of the brain is responsible for contractions of skeletal muscle?
Precentral gyrus of frontal lobe (Motor strip)