Term
| Mechanical Events in the Cardiac Cycle |
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Definition
1. Systole: Contraction and emptying of the chambers
2. Diastole: Relaxation and filling of the chambers
3. Atria and Ventricles go through separate cycle of systole and diastole
4. The contraction status (being in systole or diastole) determines heart
chamber pressure which determines whether valves are open or closed. |
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Term
| TP interval: Ventricular diastole |
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Definition
1. Atria and ventricles are in diastole (i.e., relaxed).
2. Blood flows from veins into atria
3. Ventricuclar pressure ventricular pressure = AV valve open so
5. Blood flows from atria directly into ventricles. |
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Term
| P wave and PQ interval: Late ventricular diastole |
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Definition
1. Ventricuclar pressure Ventricular Pressure = AV valves open.
6. Blood squeezed by atrial contraction from atria into ventricles. |
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Term
| D. QR Interval: End of ventricular diastole |
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Definition
1. Ventricuclar pressure Ventricular Pressure = AV valves open.
3. Blood squeezed from atria into ventricles.
4. Electrical impulse enters ventricles from the AV node.
5. Ventricles begin to depolarize.
6. R peak is end of ventricular diastole and start of ventriuclar systole. |
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Term
| E. RS interval: Early ventricluar systole |
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Definition
1. Ventricles begin to contract.
2. Atrial Pressure < Ventricle Pressure = AV valves close
3. Atrial contraction and ventricular filling are completed.
4. Ventricular pressure still not high enough to open aortic valve
5. Volume of blood in ventricles is called end-diastolic volume (EDV) which
≈ 135 ml/ventricle
6. Atria repolarize. |
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Term
| F. ST segment: Ventricular systole |
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Definition
1. Ventricular pressure > atrial pressure = AV valves closed
2. Ventricular pressure > aortic pressure = aortic valve open
3. Blood ejected into aorta from ventricles.
4. Atria in diastole and filling with blood. |
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Term
| G. Start of T wave: Late ventricular systole. |
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Definition
| 1. Repolarization of the ventricles begins. |
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Term
| H. T wave peak to end of T wave: Early ventricular diastole. |
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Definition
1. Peak of T wave = end of systole and start of diastole.
2. Ventricles begin to relax
3. Ventricular pressure atrial pressure = AV valves closed = No blood can
enter ventricles
6. This remaining volume of blood is called the End-SystolicVolume
(ESV). Typically, about half of the end diastolic volume remains in the
ventricles (about 65 ml/ventricle).
7. Atria in diastole and filling with blood. |
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Term
| I. TP interval: Ventricular diastole (back where we started) |
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Definition
1. Atria and ventricles are in diastole (i.e., relaxed).
2. Blood flows from veins into atria
3. Ventricuclar pressure ventricular pressure = AV valve open so
5. Blood flows from atria directly into ventricles |
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Term
| The stroke volume (SV) is equal to EDV-ESV = |
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Definition
volume of blood pumped by
one ventricle per heart beat. This averages ~ 70 ml/beat when at rest. |
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Term
| Classic heart sound description: lub-dub |
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Definition
a) first sound is turbulant rushing of blood as AV valves are closing
b) second sound is turbulant rushing of blood as aortic and
pulmonary valves are closing. |
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Term
Cardiac Output and its Control (cd cardiac output 3 to 8)
A. Cardiac output |
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Definition
1. Cardiac Output (CO) is volume of blood pumped by each ventricle/minute
(not volume of blood pumped by whole heart)
2. cardiac output (CO) = heart rate (HR) multiplied by stroke volume (SV)
3. Control of cardiac output is accomplished by controlling heart rate and
stroke volume!!!!!!
4. At rest for average individual
a) HR = 70 beats/min
b) SV = 70 ml/beat (see above)
c) CO = 70 beats/min x 70 ml/beat = 4900 ml/min
d) Because total blood volume in a person is 5 to 5.5 liters, each ½ of
the heart pumps nearly the whole blood volume each minute at rest |
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Term
| B. Control of Heart Rate (Fig 13.23) |
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Definition
1. Review: SA node sets baseline heart rate at ~ 70 beats per minute
2. Parasympathetic can modify baseline rate.
a) Vagus nerve is primary parasympathetic nerve to heart, supplies
the atrium, especially the SA and AV nodes, but has little/no effect
on ventricles
b) Decreases heart rate by:
(1) decreasing rate of depolarization in SA node
(2) increasing AV node delay Biology 251 Fall 2011
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c) Mechanism: Na
+
and Ca
++
leaks into SA node cells decreased, K
+
out increased = membrane potential more negative (Figs 13.24b &
13.25) |
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Term
| Sympathetic can modify baseline rate. |
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Definition
a) Sympathetic cardiac nerves supply the atria, including the SA and
AV nodes, and also the ventricles
b) Increases heart rate by
(1) increasing rate of depolarization in SA node
(2) reducing AV node delay
(3) speeding up spread of AP through Bundles of His and
Purkinje fibers
c) Mechanism: Binding of epi or norepi to Beta 1 receptors on
pacemakes cells increases rate of Na
+
and Ca
++
leaks into cell (Figs
13.24a & 13.25) = membrane potential more positive. |
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Term
Control of Stroke Volume
1. Sympathetic Effects: norepi or epi binding Beta 1 receptors on contractile
cells |
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Definition
a) increases contractile strength of ventricle cells by:
(1) increasing Ca
++
permeability of contractile cells
(2) increasing Ca
++
movement from the SR
(3) increasing the rate of myosin ATPase activity
(4) increasing rate of pumping Ca
++
back into SR. |
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Term
| 2. Varying length of heart muscle fibers |
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Definition
a) longer the fiber at start of contraction, the stronger the contraction
b) more blood that is in chamber, the longer the fiber (i.e. they are
stretched) so the stronger the contraction (Fig 13.28)
c) Bottom line: when venous return of blood to heart is increased (by
many factors to be discussed later) the blood volume in heart is
increased, which increases fiber length, which increases strength of
contraction, which allows pumping of larger volume. This is
called the Starling effect |
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Term
| Nourishing the Heart Muscl |
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Definition
A. Heart muscle does not extract nutrients from blood in chambers
1. Endocardial lining prevents exchange
2. Even if exchange could occur, heart walls too thick for effective exchange
B. Coronary circulation
1. Coronary arteries branch from aorta just beyond aortic valve
2. Heart muscle receives most (70%) of nutrient blood supply during diastole
because coronary arteries compressed during systole, and entries to these
arteries partially blocked during systole |
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