Lecture Notes | The Heart

50 questions - all MCQ or T/F

symptom v. finding

spiral shape helps get blood out better

tricuspid valve - right AV
mitral valve - left AV

• will only refer to tricuspid or mitral

right ventricle is more crescent shape - normally

left ventricle is round - normally

Aortic and Pulmonary value both have three cusps

Some people have a bicuspid valve instead of tricuspid

LAD - left anterior descending artery

normal ejection fraction - 50-60%

cardiac muscle under microscope

• has branches that can be differentiated from skeletal

main pacemaker - sinuatrial node - SA node

if SA node fails - causes AV node to take over - causes bradycardia

Bundle of HIS???

Potassium channels???

EKG

• know p, qrs, t waves, etc.

• know NSR, A fib, V tach, etc.

Principles of Pressure and Flow

Do not worry about phases of the cardiac cycle

Necessity of balanced ventricular output

Now cardiac output equation

hypercapnia, acidosis, and akalosis

Study slide 58

Know definitions

Know the frank starling curve