Unit 1 Flashcards
Intrinsic regulation
The heart beats all by itself.
Frank Starling’s mechanism of the heart
The greater the heart muscle is stretched during filling, the greater the force of contraction and the greater the quantity of blood pumped into the aorta
Length tension relationship
Cardiac muscle sarcomeres are naturally short and resist stretch more than skeletal muscle. The increase in length increases the number of functional cross bridges between actin and myosin, therefore greater force of contraction
The longer the sarcomere, the weaker it is. Therefore the cardiac muscle is strong
Right arterial stretch ______ (increases/decreases) heart rate by ________%
Increases
10-20%
Skipped heart beat causes next beat to be harder because
The myosin are overlapped
Mechanisms that work to match the venous return
Frank Starling’s mechanism and Right Atrial Stretch
Frank Starling’s Law
CO=VR
Cardiac output = venous return
If one drops, so does the othereventually.
Innervation of the heart via the autonomic nervous system. Tells the heart to speed up or slow down
Extrinsic regulation.
Increases heart rate
Increases force of contraction
Sympathetic
Decreases heart rate
Weakly decreases force of contraction
Parasympathetic
Sympathetic chain
Series of ganglia on each side of spine from the spine to the chain from the chain to the heart (?) Review this
Ability for parasympathetic to directly impact the heart rate is _____ (weaker/stronger) than the sympathetic
Weaker
Vagus nerve is cranial nerve
X
Maximum sympathetic stimulation:
Approx 24 L/min
Normal sympathetic stimulation
Approx 14 L/min
Other influences on heart function (3)
Potassium (Hyperkalemia, or too much K, slows heart rate, abnormal rhythms and potentially death)
Calcium ions (Too much is hypercalcemia causes spastic contractions)
Temperature (fever causes an increase in heart rate. The warmer you are, the faster your heart rate)
Natural pacemaker
Fastest heart rate of all cardiac tissue
Sinus node (SA node)
Conduction system
Specialized cardiac muscle cells
Location of the SA node
Superior posterolateral RA
Why does the SA node self-excitation and inherent rhythmicity?
It has a sodium leak, and it has a higher RMP (resting membrane potential)
SA node connects to the _____ muscle and ________ fibers
Atrial muscle and intermodal fibers
Fibers receives action potential from SA node
Connects to the AV node
Internodal fibers
Node that delays action potential (slow velocity through node, low # gap juncions to allow time for the atria to relax)
Located posterior RA
AV node
Purkinje System
Fibers lead from the AV node, through the AV bundle (Bundle of His), through the left and right bundle branches, then throughout the ventricular muscle.