Exam 2 Flashcards
The heart is positioned behind what costal cartilages?
3rd to 6th
What is the position of the heart in a tall slender person?
Hangs vertically and centrally.
What is the position of the heart in a short person?
More to the left and ore horizontally
When the heart displays as a mirror image it is called what?
Dextrocardia
What is it called when the heart and stomach are placed to the right and the liver is to the left ?
Situs inversus
What layer of the heart is responsible for the pumping action of the heart?
Myocardium
What is the thin outermost muscle layer that covers the surface of the heart and extends onto the great vessels?
Epicardium
What is a tough double walled fibrous sac encasing and protecting the heart?
Pericardium
What separates the atria from the ventricles on the anterior external surface of the heart?
Coronary sulcus
What two things make up the primary muscle masss of the heart?
Right and left ventricles
What are the diameters of the hear? Long, widest, anteroposterior?
12cm long, 8 cm wide, 6 cm in its anteroposterior
Anterior surface of the heart is made up of?
RIGHT VENTRICLE
What makes up the left boarder of the heart?
Left ventricle
What forms the posterior aspect of the heart?
Left atrium
Where is the apical impulse usually felt/
5th left intercostal space at the mid clavicular
What are the two atrioventricular valves?
Tricuspid and mitral valves
The antrioventricular valves are open when and closed when?
Open in diastole, closed in systole
What does Try Pulling My Arm stand for ?
The order of the valves, tricuspid, pulmonic, mitral, aortic
What is the only valve that doesn’t have three cusps (leaflets) ?
Mitral ( 2 )
When are the semilunars open? Closed?
Open during systole, closed during diastole
The S1 sound (
“LUB”) is make by the closing of what?
The mitral and tricuspid valves closing
Is valve opening usually silent?
Yes
What gives you the DUB sound (S2) ?
Closure of the aortic and pulmonic Valves
what is the A2 sound?
Closure of the aortic valve?
What makes up the P2 sound?
Closure of the pulmonic valve
What can cause an s3 sound?
Ventricular filling (diastole)
What side of the heart has more pressures?
Left
What sound is heart first A2 or P2 ?
A2
Where would you want to listen to the valves?
Away from the anatomical location, Down stream of blood flow
What is a normal RP interval?
.12 TO 0.20
WHAT IS VENTRICULAR REPOL/
T WAVE