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What does the Cardiovascular System consist of?

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Heart and blood vessels

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What does the Circulatory system consist of?

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Heart, Blood vessels AND blood

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What is Cardiology?

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Study of the heart, clinical evaluation of its functions and disorders, and treatment of cardiac diseases.

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What are the 2 major divisions of the Cardiovascular System?

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1) Pulmonary Circuit –> Carries blood to the lungs for gas exchange and returns it to the heart
2) Systemic Circuit –> Supplies blood to all organs of the body, including the lungs and the wall of the heart itself.

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Which side of the heart supplies the Pulmonary Circuit?

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The Right Side which receives oxygen-poor blood from the body and pumps it into the Pulmonary Trunk. From there the oxygen-poor blood is distributed to the lungs, where it unloads CO2 and picks up a fresh load of O2. It then returns this now oxygen-rich blood to the left side via pulmonary veins.

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Which side of the heart supplies the Systemic Circuit?

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The Left Side which pumps blood into the aorta which gives off branches that ultimately deliver O2 to every organ of the body. After the blood has picked up CO2 from the tissues, it returns to the Right heart via The superior vena cava which drains the upper body and the inferior vena cava which drains everything below the diaphragm.

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What is the largest artery?

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Aorta

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What are the Muscle Cells of the Heart Called?

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Cardiomyocytes –> short stocky cells typically 50-100 long and 10-20 wide

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The nucleus of the Cardiomyocytes are often surrounded by what?

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Glycogen

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10
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What are Intercalcated Discs?

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Ends where 2 cardiomyocytes meet

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11
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How much does the Heart weigh?

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300 grams

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12
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How much ATP does the Heart produce and use?

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5kg per day

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13
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Cardiomyocytes make ATP by Anaerobic or Aerobic respiration?

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Aerobic Respiration –> therefore very resistant to fatigue

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Mitochondria makes up how much of the cell?

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25%

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15
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Cardiomyocytes are rich in what oxygen-storing pigment?

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Myoglobin

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16
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Why is the heart described as “Autorhythmic”?

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It beats as its own rhythm without need of stimuli from the nervous system

17
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What causes the heart to be Autorhythmic?

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Modified cardiomyoctes that have lost the ability to contract and are instead specialized to depolarize spontaneously at regular time intervals. Cells are concentrated in the sinoatrial and atrioventricular nodes.

18
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Describe the pathway through the Cardiac Conduction System

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1) Sinoatrial (SA) node –> The pacemaker of the heart. it fires
2) Internodal conduction –> Excotatopms spreads through atrial myocardium
3) Atrioentricular Node –> Fires
4) Atriventricular (AV) Bundle (bundle of his) –> Excitation spreads down this. Signal speeds up here
5) Purkinje Fibers –> Distribute excitation through ventricular myocardium

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What are the events of the Endocardiogram (ECG)?

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  • P Wave –> Reflects depolarization of atria

- QRS Complex –>