Heart Flashcards
Innvervation and blood supply of the fibrous pericardium.
Pericardial and pericardiocophrenic A.
Phrenic and autnomics
Order of the layers surrouding the heart
- fibrous pericardium
2. Serous pericardium (3 layers, parietal layer and visceral layer)
Innvervation of the parietal pericardium layer
Phrenic nerve
Embryologic precursor for the fibrous pericardium
Pleuro-pericardial membrane
Describe the Pericardial Sinuses
2 reflection sites of the serous pericardiu where the parietal and visceral layers are continuous
- Transverse pericardial sinus is behind the arterires
- Oblique pericardial sinus is at the veines behind Left atrium
Describe the Apex of the heart
Primarily formed by the left ventricle and protrudes in the left 5th intercostal space
Pericardiocentesis is best performed where?
Xyphoid process and costal margine or in the left 5th intercostal space.
The needle would past through the fibrous PC then the serous parietal pericardium
- fluid builds in between the serous layers, parietal and visceral pericardium
Describe the base of the heart
primarily the left atrium against the thoracic vertebrae
The surfaces of the heart:
Base, Apex, Sternal costal (anterior), (inferior) Diaphgramatic and pulmonary (left, creates cardiac notch)
Heart Borders:
Superior: Left and right atria
Inferior: nearly horizontal mostly right ventricle, separates sternal costal surface from diaphragmatic
Left: long, formed by left ventricle to the apex, separates sternal costal from pulmonary surface
right: right atrium.
Name the external structure that separates the atria and ventricles
The coronary (atrioventricular) sulcus
External structure separating the left and right ventricles
Posterior and Anterior Interventricular groove
Intercostal space of the Apex
left 5th intercostal space
List opening into the Right atrium
superior vena cava
Coronary Sinus (vein draining the heart)
inferior vena cava
The structure separating the smoothe and aterior pectinate muscles of the right atrium
Crista terminalis
The location of the Fossa Ovalis
Interatrial septum
Name the valve of the right atrium to right ventrical and associated muscles and tends
Tricuspid
Papillary muscles
Corda tendonea
Name the valve from the left atrium to the left ventrical
Bicuspid or mitral