Cardiovascular System
Dec 30, 2015
A closed system of the heart and blood vessels
The function of the cardiovascular system is to deliver oxygen and nutrients and to remove carbon dioxide and other waste products
The Cardiovascular System
Myocardial Infarction: Open Topic
• What is a heart attack?
• What are the signs?
• What should you do if you see someone experiencing symptoms?
Warning Signs of Heart Attack• Chest discomfort. Most heart attacks involve discomfort in the
center of the chest that lasts for more than a few minutes, or goes away and comes back. The discomfort can feel like uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness, or pain.
• Discomfort in other areas of the upper body. Can include pain or discomfort in one or both arms, the back, neck, jaw, or stomach.
• Shortness of breath. Often comes along with chest discomfort. But it also can occur before chest discomfort.
• Other symptoms. May include breaking out in a cold sweat, nausea, or light-headedness.
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What is a heart attack?
• Watch and find out!
Heart Attack
What is done after a heart attack?
• Many things depending on the problem.
• Medication
• Coronary Bypass surgery
• Angioplasty
• More specific surgeries: correcting the physical cause behind the heart attack. Watch this Video!
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Surgery
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Heart Facts
• Your heart is about the same size as your fist. • An average adult body contains about five quarts
of blood. • All the blood vessels in the body joined end to end
would stretch 62,000 miles or two and a half times around the earth.
• The heart circulates the body's blood supply about 1,000 times each day.
• The heart pumps the equivalent of 5,000 to 6,000 quarts of blood each day.
To Understand a Heart Attack, you need to understand the Heart
• Location: Thoracic Cavity• Parts of the heart
– 4 chambers: •2 atria: thin walled upper chambers
which receive blood • 2 ventricles: muscled lower
chambers which pump the blood out
Need to know More?
• Click the following links to see how blood flows through the heart and the body.
Watch Adam and then go to
next page to learn about the electrical
System
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What is the Heart made of?
• Cardiac muscle• Cells are elongated and cylindrical,
striated, & only have one nucleus.• They have rapid, involuntary, rhythmic
contractions• Cardiac muscle cells form an intercalated
discs containing gap junctions, which bridge cells.
The Heart Valves Job: blood flow in one direction.• Semilunar valves: between the arteries and
ventricles– Pulmonary semilunar valve– Aortic semilunar valve
Atrioventricular valves: between the atria and ventricles• Tricuspid valve (right)• Bicuspid (mitral) valve (left)
How do valves work?
• Valves open as blood is pumped through
• Held in place by chordae tendineae (“heart strings”)
• Close to prevent backflow
• The 1st heart sound (lub) is caused by the closure of the Tricuspid and Mitral Valves.
• The 2nd sound (dub) is caused by the
closure of the Pulmonary and Aortic Valves.
What causes the sound your heart makes?
Heart Sounds
What techniques do you know of to diagnose heart attacks?
• EKG: monitors the electrical system of the heart. Only one that can diagnose attack.
• Heart ultrasound: diagnoses heart damage or deformities when patient is stable.
• Stress Test: Tests how well your heart is doing.
• Sphynometer: BP kit
Watch Adam and then go to
next page to learn about the electrical
System
How It
Works
EKGExamples
Types of Heart Rhythms
ECG Stimulator
Review: What causes the Heart beat?
• SA Node begins the signal (pacemaker)
• AV Node resistor sends signal to the…
• Bundle of His spreads down the septum
• Finally goes to the Purkinji fibers Left side contracts first!
What protects the Heart?
• The Pericardium
• 2 layers– Parietal Pericardium– Visceral Pericardium– Fluid between to reduce friction
• Pericarditits: reduced serous fluid. Sticks, heart can’t move.
Now that we understand what a myocardial infarction is and how
it’s diagnosed…How can it be treated?
• Go To Surgery• & Video on Heart• Check out • exterior/interior • heart
But what can be done to prevent a heart attack?• Prevent arteries from occluding.
• Must open up arteries and veins in order to allow the blood to flow.
• Procedure: Angioplasty
Angioplasty
Differences Between Blood Differences Between Blood Vessel TypesVessel Types
Walls of arteries are the thickest
Lumens of veins are larger
Skeletal muscle “milks” blood in veins toward the heart
Walls of capillaries are only one cell layer thick to allow for exchanges between blood and tissue
Variations in Blood PressureVariations in Blood Pressure Human normal range is variable
Normal140–110 mm Hg systolic80–75 mm Hg diastolic
HypotensionLow systolic (below 110 mm HG)Often associated with illness
HypertensionHigh systolic (above 140 mm HG)Can be dangerous if it is chronic
BP Demonstrated