PHIS 206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Pulmonary Circulation, Pulmonary Artery, Cardiac Muscle

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Lecture 11: Cardiac Muscle and Heart as Pump
Muscle Types
Cardiac Muscle
o Similar to SKM in filament structure
o Structural and Electrical connections between cardiac muscle cells different
o Calcium Handling different → control different
How they handle calcium is different
Cardiac muscle connected to cardiac muscle
Electrical connection between these cells are specialized
Dual Pump
Two pumps
o Right heart pumps blood from body to lungs (from systemic circulation to
pulmonary circulation)
o Left heart pumps blood from lungs to body (from pulmonary circulation to
systemic circulation)
o Both pumps must pump same amount
If don’t pump same amount, then blood starts backing up, etc it will be bad
Pumps 5 liters of blood a minute (more with exercise)
Frontal Section - Path of Blood
Veins → Right Atrium → Right Ventricle → Lungs → Left Atrium → Left Ventricle →
Arteries
Remember this order! This is important!
Bulk of the hard work happens in ventricles (main pumping)
This is the only direction
Frontal Section - Geography and Orientation
Base and Apex not where one would expect
Heart is on left of body, pointing down and toward left, but with apex rotated toward
anterior
Pointy part of heart is apex (tippy triangle part at bottom), base of heart kinda where
blood is received
Heart beats from apex to base
Wall Thickness
Different circuits
o The left and right heart pump the exact same amount of blood through different
circuits
o Wall thickness corresponds with resistance of the two systems
Left ventricular free wall is thicker than right ventricular free wall (bc not that hard to
pump blood through lungs, but needs more pressure to pump blood from heart through
rest of the body)
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Lecture 11: cardiac muscle and heart as pump. Dual pump: two pumps, right heart pumps blood from body to lungs (from systemic circulation to pulmonary circulation, left heart pumps blood from lungs to body (from pulmonary circulation to systemic circulation, both pumps must pump same amount. If don"t pump same amount, then blood starts backing up, etc it will be bad: pumps 5 liters of blood a minute (more with exercise) Frontal section - path of blood: veins right atrium right ventricle lungs left atrium left ventricle . This is important: bulk of the hard work happens in ventricles (main pumping, this is the only direction. Base of the heart: valves, at base of heart, 4 valves are located, these valves define the 4 chambers of the heart, and ensure one-way flow, remember valves, remember order of valves, valves prevent backflow.

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