Chapter 10- Cardiovascular System Flashcards
The cardiovascular system is also called:
The circulatory system
What does the cardiovascular system bring?
Oxygen, nutrients, water, and other substances to the body’s cells
Closed systems include:
- Blood vessels (arteries, arterioles, capillaries, venules, and veins
- Heart (pumps blood)
- Blood (contains nutrients and waste products)
Arteries-
Strong and stretchy, carry blood from the heart
Arterioles:
small, moves blood to capillaries.
Capillaries-
Thin-walled vessels: allow for exchange of
oxysen, rustleras, waste products and other
substances
Venules:
Collect blood from capillaries; begin journey to the heart
Veins:
Collect blood from venules and return blood to the heart
Radial artery:
By the wrist: used to take pulse
Carotid artery:
In the neck, used to check for heartbeat in an unresponsive adult
Median cubital vein:
In the arm, commonly used for phlebotomy
The heart-
- complex muscular organ
- pumps blood around the body
-about the size of a person’s fist
-located; in the mediastinum of the thoracic cavity (slightly left of the midline)
Apex-
The pointed tip of the heart rests just above the diaphragm
Precordium-
Area of chest wall anterior to the heart and lower thorax
Four chambers:
Two Atria, and two ventricles
Atria:
Two upper chambers; smaller chambers with thinner walls.
Right atrium-
One of the four chambers of the heart. Receives blood from the body.
Left atrium-
Receives blood from the lungs.
Ventricles-
Two lower chambers; larger chambers with thick muscular walls.
Septum-
Thick muscular wall that divides the heart into right and left sections.
Interatrial septum:
Separates left and right atria
Inter-ventricular septum:
Divides right and left ventricles
Heart walls is composed of three layers:
Endocardium
Myocardium
Epicardium
Endocardium-
Inner thin endothelial layer that lines the chambers and valves.
Myocardium-
Middle and thickest layer; composed of cardiac muscle
Epicardium:
Outer layer that covers the heart
Heart valves-
Atrioventricular (AV): Bicuspid & Tricuspid
Semilunar (SL): Pulmonary & Aortic
Atrioventricular (AV) valves:
Bicuspid (mitral) & Tricuspid valve
Semilunar (SL) valve:
Pulmonary & aortic valve
Bicuspid (mitral) valves:
between the left atrium and the left ventricle
Tricuspid valve:
Between the right atrium and the right ventricle
Pulmonary valve:
between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery
Aortic valve:
Between the left ventricle and the aorta
Heart beat-
- Normal sound is a (lup dup)
- a complete heartbeat (cardiac cycle) can be divided into diastole and systole phases.
Diastole phase:
Heart is at rest, atria filled with blood.
Systole phase:
Heart is contracting
Pulmonary circulation:
-deoxygenated blood is pumped from the right side of the heart to the lungs; gas exchange occurs; oxygenated blood returns to the heart.
- begins as the blood returns from the body.
- the superior vena cava and inferior vena cava bring deoxygenated blood from the body to the right atrium.
Systemic circulation:
-Oxygenated blood is pumped from the left side of the heart and moves through the body; oxygen, nutrients, and other substances are brought to the cells while the blood picks up waste products: deoxygenated blood returns to the heart.
-when the atria are full of blood, they contract
- oxygenated blood in the left atrium moves past the bicuspid or mitral valve; empties into the left ventricle.
Deoxygenated blood process:
superior and inferior venae cavae
Right atrium
Tricuspid valve
Right ventricle
Pulmonary valve
Pulmonary artery (to the lungs)
LUNGS- exchange of CO2 & O2
Oxygenated blood process:
lungs- exchange of CO2 and O2
Pulmonary veins
Left atrium
Bicuspid (mitral) valve
Left ventricle
Aortic valve
Aorta
Coronary circulation:
- the heart has its own blood vessels that support tissues.
- the coronary arteries bring nutrients and oxygen to the heart tissue.
- the coronary arteries have an important role of maintaining the myocardium:
Hepatic portal circulation:
Veins from the spleen, gallbladder, pancreas, stomach and intestines dump blood into the hepatic portal vein.
Liver:
has a special role in filtering the blood and metabolizes or breaks down substances.
The hepatic portal system advantages-
- Glucose absorbed can be filtered/stored in the liver (it will later be added back to the blood when the glucose levels are low).
- Toxic substances (alcohol and medications) can be partially filtered before moving to the rest of the body.
Fetal circulation:
- before birth, the baby’s lungs, GI tract, and kidneys are not functioning like they will after birth.
- the placenta attaches to the mother’s uterus and connects to the growing baby via the umbilical cord.
- arteries carry fetal blood to the placenta.
- the umbilical vein carries oxygen and nutrient rich blood to the baby.
structures unique to growing the baby:
- Ductus venous
- Foramen ovale
- Ductus arteriosus
Ductus venous-
a shunt that allows oxygenated blood in the umbilical vein to bypass the liver and is essential for normal fetal circulation. [1] Blood becomes oxygenated in the placenta and travels to the right atrium via umbilical veins through the ductus venosus, then to the inferior vena cava.
Foramen ovale:
hole between the left and right atria (upper chambers) of the heart. This hole exists in everyone before birth, but most often closes shortly after being born. PFO is what the hole is called when it fails to close naturally after a baby is born.
Ductus arteriosus:
normal blood vessel that connects two major arteries — the aorta and the pulmonary artery — that carry blood away from the heart
-The lungs are not used while a fetus is in the womb because the baby gets oxygen directly from the mother’s placenta.
Cardiac Cells:
- Electrical & Myocardial
Electrical cells- (unique characteristics)
- Automaticity: create and discharge the electrical impulse.
- Excitability: respond to the electrical impulse
- Conductivity: transmit electrical impulses to other cells
Myocardial-
initiate and propagate the action potential (the electrical impulse) that travels throughout the heart and triggers the contractions that propel the blood.
Sinoatrial node:
the pacemaker of the heart.
Atrioventicular node:
Located at the base of the interatrial septum.
Bundle of His:
When an impulse leaves AV node, it moves here
Right and left bundle branches:
Located in the lower inter-ventricular system.
Purkinje fibers:
Transmit the impulse quickly and efficiently to the ventricular myocardial cells. This causes the ventricular chambers to contract.
States of the cardiac cell:
- polarized, depolarized, repolarized