CVR 4 Flashcards
Right coronary artery supplies in 60% of people what?
Sinoatrial branch
What does the RCA do?
Maintain correct electrical system of the heart.
Is there sufficient anastomoses in the heart at the level of the artery?
No, they cannot compensate. However, at the capillary level over a period time you can gradually build up an anastomotic junction.
What are the 3 significant tributaries of the coronary sinus
great, middle and small cardiac vein.
What causes the valves to open and close?
The pressure is higher on one side than the other.
Capillary muscles exert a tension but they do not open or close.
Where is not capable of electrical activity
Everywhere on the heart is capable of conduction bar between the atria and ventricles there is fibrous activity which does not transmit electricity (save for one very specific pathway which is designed for it …the conducting system)
Describe the atrial muscle
part smooth, part striated due to embryology. As the heart grows the atria incorporates veins and the primitive part is smooth.
Whats teh name of the depression in the right atrium
Fossa ovalis. Developmentally significant (defect in the septum which should separate the right and left heart)
Whats the name of the depression in the right atrium
Fossa ovalis. Developmentally significant (defect in the septum which should separate the right and left heart)
What is the muscle of the ventricles
slablike, trabeculations. Heart muscle gets o2 from
What is the muscle of the ventricles
slablike, trabeculations. More and more of lost trabeculations as the heart developes.
How are the papillary muscles connected to the atrioventricular valves
chordae tendineae. Prevents valves from opening backwards under systolic pressure.
SAP and AP
SAP on the right
AP on the left
The AV valves are tri and bi
Anterior left and right posterior are assosiated with R and L coronary arteries.
Pulmonary are the opposites.
What can cause narrowing of the oesophagus
enlarged left atrium
What are the rough walled part at appendages called
Pectinate muscles of the primitive atrium.
Aortic valves
anterior
left posterior
right posterior non coronary cusp
What are you most concerned with at this level?
aortic valves and cuspid valves. Left side of the heart due to the pressures
Whats teh first thing that happens on contraction
applies pressure from underneath to the valve preventing backflow
Signal goes
SA to AV
What do swollen ankles mean generally
the heart is not pumping blood well. Also back pressure in the enck
What do swollen ankles mean generally
the heart is not pumping blood well. Also back pressure in the neck. Back pressure in the lungs can be heard and is a very bad sign.
Apex beat
lowest most lateral part of the chest where the heart can be heard. 5th intercostal space in mid clavicular line.
Heart borders?
2nd CC T4/5
Pattern of Xray reading
ABCDA Airway - black Bones - white Cardiac - less than 1.2 diameter of chest Diapragm - Air entry -