The Cardiovascular System: Cardiac Function

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Chapter 13 The Cardiovascular System: Cardiac Function 1. Identify the major components of the cardiovascular system, and briefly describe their functions * 3 components: heart, blood vessels, and blood * Functions: * Oxygen and nutrients to cell * Waste from cells to livers and kidneys * Hormones, immune cells, and clotting proteins to specific target cells 2. Identify the major structures of the heart, and describe the path of blood flow through the heart and vasculature. * Hollow, muscular walled pump, weighs less than a pound * Beats 100,000X/day * Beats about 3 million times in one lifetime; pumps 3,600 gals of blood/day 1) LEFT VENTRICLE pumps oxygenated blood into AORTA 2) Blood…show more content…
Ventricle pumps blood into PULMONARY trunk (almost immediately branches into the pulmonary arteries), which carries deoxygenated blood to the lungs away from the heart. 5) Blood becomes OXYGENATED in the lungs, and then travels to LEFT ATRIUM in PULMONARY VEIN (carries oxygenated blood towards heart). 6) From the LEFT ATRIUM, blood passes through bicuspid valve into the LEFT VENTRICLE 7) REPEAT!! * As blood flows away from the heart, it transported to the body’s organs and tissues in relatively large vessels. * HEART ARTERIES ARTERIOLES CAPILLARIES VENULES VEINS 3. Compare and contrast the pulmonary circuit to the systemic circuit. Describe coronary circulation. * Pulmonary circuit: all blood vessels within the lungs and also those connecting the lungs with the heart * Supplied by the right heart * Systemic circuit: encompasses the rest of the blood vessels in the body. * Left heart * Coronary Circulation: parallel with other organs in systemic circuit * Blood in chambers does not supply nutrients to cardiac cells * Heart capillaries are supplied by coronary arteries that arise from…show more content…
8. Explain the following events in the cardiac cycle: change in ventricular, aortic, and atrial pressure; changes in ventricular volume; and heart sounds. * Events associated with the flow of blood through the heart during a single complete heartbeat. * TWO main periods of cardiac cycle: systole – contraction; diastole – relaxation * AV valves open when pressure atria exceeds pressure ventricles, semilunar valves opens pressure ventricles EXCEEDS pressure arteries 1) Ventricular filling: AV opens a. Passive: no atria/ventricular contraction b. Active: atria contract 2) Isovolumetric ventricular contraction c. AV & Semi. Closed d. Ventricle contracts – increases

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