Wet Room 2 Flashcards
What are the autonomic motor fibres travelling?
Travelling in the vagus nerves (parasympathetic) and spinal cord segments T1-4 (sympathetic) are routed to the heart and coronary arteries via the cardiac/cardiopulmonary plexus situated at the bifurcation of the trachea
How do sensory and pain fibres travel?
Travel back from the heart to spinal cord levels T1-4 in the sympathetic nerves
What do the motor fibres do?
Innervate and influence nodes (SA and AV nodes) of modified cardiac muscle cells that spontaneously generate electrical impulses.
These modified cells are known as Purkinje cells and their branches as Purkinje fibres.
Where is the sinu-atrial node?
Lies near the opening of the SVC in the right atrium
(chamber)
Where does the atrioventricular node lie?
Lies in the inferior part of the intra-atrial septum
Where does the atrioventricular bundle (of His) lie?
Lies within each side of the intra-ventricular Septum
Where does the pain associated with cardiac ischemia carried back to?
Carried back to levels T1-4 of the spinal cord via afferent fibres within the sympathetic nerves supplying the heart.
This severe, ‘constricting’ pain is experienced on the anterior chest wall and also on the medial side of the left arm.
Such pain as emanating from an organ/viscus but experienced somatically is known clinically as “referred pain”.
What does the heart lies immediately in front of?
The oesophagus and vertebra T5-T8 in the recumbent (lying down) position
What is the base of the heart?
The base of the heart (left atrium) therefore lies immediately anterior to the oesophagus
What is the vertical position of the heart descend?
Heart descends by a small amount relative to the vertebral column.
Where is the apex?
5th left intercostal space, in the midclavicular line
What forms the right border of the heart
Right atrium
What forms the left border of the heart?
Left ventricle and left atrium
What forms the inferior border of the heart?
Right ventricle
The left ventricle contributes near the apex