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What Are The Two Main Functions of the Cardiovascular System?

Deliver Oxygen and Nutrients to all cells

Remove Waste

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What Pumps and What Delivers?

The heart pumps blood

Blood vessels circulates and delivers blood

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How Many Chambers Does the Heart Have?

4

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What Are The Two Types of Chambers?

Atria and Ventricles

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What do the Atria do?

Receiving chambers

Right and left atria

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What do the Ventricles do?

Discharging Chambers

Right and left ventricles

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What separates the right and left Atria?

Interatrial Septum

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Fossa Ovalis

An opening in the fetal heart that directs blood from the right to the left atrium in order to bypass the nonfunctioning fetal lungs

Remember:

F in Fossa Ovalis is for “fetal”

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What separates the ventricles

Interventricular Septum

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How does blood flow

Blood only flows in one direction with the help of valves

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Atrioventricular Valves

Between Atria and Ventricles

Biscuspid valve (left)

Tricuspid valve (right)

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Semilunar valves

Between the ventricle and artery

Pulmonary semilunar valve

Aorti semilunar valve

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How are valves held in place

Chordae tendineae hold them in place “heart strings”

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Why do valves close?

To prevent backflow

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Blood Pressure

a measurement to calculate the pressure in large arteries and how hard the heart works

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Systolic Pressure

Pressure at the peak of ventricular contraction

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Diastolic

Pressure when ventricles relax

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How do pressure and blood pressure relate?

The further away the blood vessel from the heart the lower the blood pressure

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Why does the cardiologist like McDonalds

Because it keeps him in business

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Intrinsic conduction system

Heart muscle cells contract, without nerve impulses in a regular continuous way

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What does the Sinoatrial node do?

It is the pacemaker of the heart

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Purkinje fibers

Fibers that release Ca2+ to cause the muscle to contract; intercalated discs continue the contraction

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SA Node (Pacemaker)

Has two pathways

Internodal pathway and atrial muscle

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Internodal pathway

Av node

Bundle of His

Bundle Branches

Purkinje system

Ventricular myocytes

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Action Potential of the Heart

0- Depolarization

Influx of Na+ through FAST Na+ channels

1- Short Repolarization

K+ efflux through K+ channels

2- Plateau Phase

Ca2+ influx through SLOW Ca2+ channels

3- Repolarization

K+ efflux through K+ channels

4 - Resting

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What is the Cardiac Cycle

The cycle of mechanical events occurring during one single heart beat

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One Heart Beat = how many atrial contractions

1 Heart Beat = 1 cycle = 2 atrial contractions and 2 ventricular contractions

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How long does One Cycle Last?

About 0.8 seconds or 72 bpm

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How long does the Diastole (relaxation) portion of the cycle take?

About 0.5 seconds

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How long does the Systole (contraction) portion take?

About 0.3 seconds

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What are the Four Stages of the Cardiac Cycle?

  1. Passive filling (of atrial)
  2. Atrial contraction (ventricles fill with blood)
  3. AV valves close (no backflow)
  4. Semilunar valves open and ventricles contract

The first two steps are Diastole while steps 3,4 are the contraction phase

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Cardiac Cycle (in general)

Blood flows from high to low pressures

Contractions of heart chambers increase pressure

AV vales open when the atrial pressure is high

SL valves open when the ventricular pressure is high

If not specified, systole and diastole refer to the ventricles

Isovolumetric means that the volume stays the same

3 phases but 5 steps

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How many phases of heart contraction are there?

3

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Phase 1: Mid to late diastole/ Atrial depolarization/ contraction

Blood flows into ventricles; AV vales close; 1st heart sound; beginning of ventricular systole

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Phase 2: Ventricular systole/ Isovolumertric contraction

SL valves remain closed; vetnricles contract within a closed system; blood pressure builds in ventricles; SL valves open; blood is ejected; ventricular pressure drops ; SL valves close; 2nd heart sound, S2: end of ventricular systole

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Phase 3: Early diastole

Ventricles relax; all valves closed; ventricular pressure is low; atrial finish re-filling, atrial pressures rise; ventricular filling starts

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What are the Two Heart Sounds?

The Lubb (1st) and Dupp (2nd)

Lubb: Long, booming sound from the AV valves closing

Dupp: Short, sharp shound from the semilunar valves closing at the end of ventricular contraction

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Cardiac Output (CO)

Amount of blood pumped by the heart in one minute

Heart rate x stroke volume

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Heart rate

Number of times the heart beats in one minute

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Stroke Volume

The volume of blood pumped during each cardiac cycle

Stroke volume usually remains constant

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Starling’s law of the Heart

The more that the cardiac muscle is stretched, the stronger the contraction and the larger the stroke volume; physiologically important mechanism in making sure that the output of blood by both the right and left ventricles is the same

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Changing heart rate

Most common way to change cardiac output

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Chemoreceptors

These signal the glossopharyngeal nerve; this nerve goes back to the medulla oblongata

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Carotid Sinus

This is where Chemoreceptors for CO2 and pH are

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What does the Cardiac Nerve do?

Affects heart rate when working out as well as ventricular contractions

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Electrocardiogram (EKG)

Traces the flow of electrical currents through the heart

Picked up by electrodes placed on the skin

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P phase of EKG

Atrial contractions

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QRS phase of EKG

Results from depolarization of ventricles & signals ventricular contraction

Repolarization of atria also occurs

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T phase of EKG

Repolarization of the ventricles