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Pericardium
Covering of the heart
3 layers of the pericardium
1. Fibrous layer
2. Parietal layer of serous pericardium
3. Visceral layer of serous pericardium
Which pericardial layer is continuous with walls of great vessels
Fibrous
Pericardial cavity found between _____ layers of the pericardium
Parietal layer of serous & visceral layer of serous pericardium
_____ forms the outmost covering of the actual heart
Visceral layer of serous pericardium
Transverse sinus
Potential space between serous pericardium & visceral pericardium
Cardiac tamponade
Excess fluid in pericardial space
Causes of cardiac tamponade
Blunt trauma
Malignancy
Infection
Symptoms of cardiac tamponade
Decreasing BP
Faint heart sounds
Low voltage EKG
PEA
PEA
Pulseless electrical activity
2 causes of PEA so far
1. Cardiac tamponade
2. Tension pneumothorax
Treatment of cardiac tamponade
Pericardiocentesis
Layers of heart deep --> superficial
Endocardium --> Myocardium --> Epicardium
Epidcardium AKA
Visceral layer of serous pericardium
Endocardium becomes continuous with:
Lining of great vessels
Enlargement of right side of heart on x ray, ___ is the cause
Right atrium
Apex of heart formed by:
Left ventricle
Groove dividing atrium & ventricles
Coronary groove
Groove dividing ventricles
--
--
Interventricular groove
--Anterior
--Posterior
Base of heart located near ___-
Sternum
Right atrium valves (3)
IVC
Tricuspid
Valve of coronary sinus
LA valves
Mitral
Blood route
1. Deoxygenated blood into ___
2.
3. Valve
4.
5. Valve
6.
7.
Oxygenated blood
8.
9.
10. Valve
11.
12. Valve
13.
1. Vena Cava
2. Right atrium
3. Tricuspid valve
4. Right ventricle
5. Pulmonary valve
6. Pulmonary a.
7. Lungs
8. Pulmonary v.
9. Left atrium
10. Mitral valve
11. Left ventricle
12. Aortic valve
13. Aorta
Supply of Blood to periphery occurs during:
Systole
During systole, heart muscle cannot be supplied because
It's at max contraction
Blood supply to heart itself occurs during:
Diastole
how coronary a. gets blood
Backflow of blood from aorta
____ are the first branches of anterior aorta
Right and left coronary
Coronary means
Crown
Right coronary a. found between ____; on the _____ surface of the heart
Anterior aorta & right atrium; anterior
Right coronary a. descends in ____ towards:
Coronary groove; inferior margin of the heart
2 Branches of coronary a.
1. Nodal a.
2. Right marginal a.
Nodal a. supplies; descend in:
SA node; coronary groove
Right marginal a. supplies
Inferior surface of heart
Left coronary a. location
Posterior aorta
2 branches of left coronary a.
1. Circumflex
2. LAD - Left anterior descending
Circumflex travels in ____; continuous with
Coronary sulcus; right marginal
LAD descends towards ____ in _____ groove
Apex (lateral); interventricular
LAD continues to posterior heart in
posterior interventricular groove
Most commonly obstructed & sclerosed coronary a.
-Nickname
LAD
-Widow maker
Left coronary a. dominant =
-Circumflex comes down to form posterior interventricular
-LAD comes down to form posterior interventricular
Right coronary dominant
Right coronary forming posterior interventricular
Coronary dominance has implications in
Infarction
LAD can cause ___ infarctions (
1.
2.
3.
--Most common
1. Anterior
2. Septal
3. Lateral
--Most common
Circumflex can cause ___ infarctions
1.
2.
Anterior lateral
Posterior lateral
Artery determining coronary dominance
Posterior interventricular
Right coronary can cause ____ infarctions
1.
2.
Posterior
Inferior
If blockage is high enough in right coronary can also cause ____, because of
Disturbance of rhythym of SA or AV node; nodal a.
Right marginal can cause ___ infarctions
Inferior
Right marginal can cause ___ infarctions
Inferior
Test allowing you to see which a. is blocked
EKG
How EKG allos you to seek which a. is block
Allows you to see whether it's an anterior, septal, lateral, inferior, posterior or combo infarction
Venous drainage of the heart muscle
1.
2.
3.
Great cardiac
Middle cardiac
Small cardiac
Great cardiac v. location
Anterior interventricular sulcus; follows circumflex a. to posterior coronary sulcus
Middle cardiac v. location
Posterior interventricular sulcus
Small cardiac v. location
Inferior heart
Coronary veins drain to:
Coronary sinus
Coronary sinus returns venous blood to:
Right atrium
2 portions of heart drained separately from the 3 cardiac v.
-
-
-Drained by
Anterior surface of heart - RA & proximal RV
-Anterior cardiac v.
SA node location
Base of superior vena cava, RA
AV node location
Opening of tricuspid valve RA
Tissue type of nodes
Not myocardial, but specialized
Vein of the RA containing no valve
SVC
Fossa ovalis
-Location
-Remnant of
-Septa
-Fetal foramen ovalis
Foramen ovalis function
Blood to RA --> LA (instead of RV --> Lungs)
Patent foramen ovalis is dangerous with:
Embolus (stroke)
Rough muscles of RA wall
Pectinate muscles
Crista terminalis
Transition from pectinate muscle to smooth
Ear like appendage of each atrium
Auricle
Clinical relevance of auricle
Clots can form here
Protrusions of muscles in RV
Papillary m.
Papillary m. connected to cusp by:
Cordae tendinae
Papillary m. & cordae tendinae prevent:
Cusp folding back into atrium during systole
Rough muscles of RV
Trabeculae carnae
Moderater band
-AKA
-Connects
-Septomarginal trabeculae
-Anterior papillary m. to septum
Which ventricle is thicker
Left
Valves that have 3 cusps
Pulmonary (2 valves)
Aortic
Valves contain ____ to fill the hole in the middle of the 3 cusps
Nodules
Fibrous skeleton function
1.
2.
1. Provides structure for valves of heart
2. Divides Atria and ventral physically & electrically
Intrinsic automaticity
-SA - ____ BPM
-AV
60
40
Heart rate is determined by influence of ____ to SA/AV nodes
Sympathetic/parasympathetic input
SA/AV Pathway is neither ____ or ___; descrived as "specialized pathway"
Neural; myocardial
Result of all heart cells connected by gap junction
What happens to one will happen to another
The intrinsic pacemaker of the heart
SA node
When AV is stimulated, it's pulse travels to ____ through ____
Fibrous skeleton; Bundle of His
Bundle of His divisions
1.
2
Right
Left
Right bundle branch location
Moderator band
Left bundle branch branches
1.
2.
Anterior hemi
Posterior hemi
Electrical impulses from skeleton/bundle fibers released through:
Perkinje fibers
Junctional rhythm occurs when
AV is pacemaker
Heart block
Delay in communication
3rd degree heart block
No communication between SA & AV
If neither node is firing ____ takes over firing; ___BPM
Ventricles; 20 BPM
Ausculation of heart sounds produced by
Closing of valves
Valves closing at systole:
Tricuspid & mitral
Valves closing at diastole
Pulmonary & aortic
Best place to hear heart sounds:
Along the axis of projection down the vessel
Best place to hear aortic heart sounds ( & whether systole/diastole?)
Right 2nd intercostal space next to sternum
-Diastole
Pulmonic heart sounds (systole/diastole?)
Left 2nd intercostal
-Diastole
Tricuspid heart sounds (systole/diastole?)
-Xiphoid
-Systole
Mitral heart sounds
(systole/diastole?)
-5th intercostal space, midclavicular line
-Systole
Loudest valve heart sound
Mitral
Mitral heart sound location in male
Inferolateral to nipple