Circulatory Flashcards
Pericardium
Sac that surrounds the heart
Intraventricular Septum
Septum that divides the heat
Foramen ovale
Causes blood in right atrium to be shunted away from the lungs into the left atrium
Ductus arteriosis
Blood ejected by the right ventricle is returned to the systemic circuit via ductus arteriosus
What are the 2 atrioventricular valves
The tricuspid (right) and the bicuspid (left)
What do the chordae tendineae do?
prevent AV valves from being pushed into atria by connecting the valvue to the papillary muscles “pull on heart strings”
The bicuspid valve is also called the …
mitral valve
Blood flows from a region of …
high pressure to a region of low pressure
Contraction increases
pressure
Late distole
both sets of chambers are open and relaxed, ventricles fill passively
Atrial systole
Atrial contraction forces the small amount of reamining (20%) blood into the ventricles to fill them
Isovolumic ventricular contraction
Ventricular constraction pushes AV nodes closed (1st HB sound) but not enough to open semilunar valve, pressure keeps building (toothpaste with cap on)
Ventricular Ejection
as pressure rises the blood is ejected through the semi-lunar valve
Isovolumic ventricular relaxation
as ventricles relax pressure in the ventricles falls and blood flows backwards, semilunar valve snap closed (second HB sound)
systole is
contraction
diastole is
relaxation
End-diastolic (relaxation) volume (EDV)
maximum volume of blood in the ventricles (in atrial systole)
End-systolic (contraction) volume (ESV)
volume of blood in ventricles at the end of contraction (in ventricular ejection)
Stroke volume
volume of blood pumped by 1 ventricle in 1 heart beat
How to calculate SV?
EDV-ESV
Which side has a higher pressure ?
the left side because it need to pump to whole body and even go against gravity to get the brain
Cardiac output
Volume of blood pumped by the blood in 1 minute
How do you calculate Cardiac output?
SV = CO/HB Sooooo CO = SV*HB
Where does electrical activity originate
in the SA node
What is in the SA node
pacemaker cells
What do pacemaker cells do?
initiate CONDUCTION of the HB and are responsitble for the rhythm generated
What does the AV node and what is it’s function?
electrically connects the atria to the ventricles and slows the impulse
What do the branched bundles do?
conduct impulses though the interventricular septum
What do the purkinjee fibres do?
Depolarize the contractile cells of both ventricles, depolarization spreads upwards from the apex
What is the analogy for the pacemaker and contractile cells?
pacemaker cells initiate the AP like a officer giving orders to the soliders (contractile cells) telling them to move
How does the impulse spread accross the atria
through internodal pathways and gap junctions between contractile cells