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Pearson's Comprehensive
Medical Assisting
Administrative and Clinical Competencies
Second Edition
CHAPTER
CHAPTER
49
Electrocardiography
Lesson 1:
Heart Structure and Function
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Lesson Objectives
Upon completion of this lesson, students
should be able to …
• Define and spell the terms for this chapter.
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The Heart Review
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Critical Thinking Question
1. Trace the blood flow through the heart.
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Function of the Cardiovascular
System
• To carry oxygen from
the lungs to all the
tissues of the body
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Function of the Cardiovascular
System
• Deoxygenated blood then circulates
through the body and discharges carbon
dioxide, the waste product of cell
metabolism, from the lungs
• Blood circulates throughout the body and
returns from the general circulation by way
of the superior and inferior vena cava, to
the right atrium, moving in one direction
through the heart
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Function of the Cardiovascular
System
• When the right atrium
is full, the atrium
contracts and blood is
pumped into the right
ventricle through the
tricuspid valve
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Function of the Cardiovascular
System
• On filling, blood is pumped by contraction of the
right ventricle through the semilunar valves into
the pulmonary artery going to the lungs
• There, blood is oxygenated and returned to the
left atrium through the four pulmonary veins
• When that chamber is full, it contracts and blood
is squeezed into the left ventricle through the
mitral (bicuspid) valve
• In the left ventricle, blood enters the aortic
semilunar valve and moves into all parts of the
body except the lungs
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Function of the Cardiovascular
System
• Blood travels to all
parts of the body via
the aorta and then
goes into all other
arteries
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Function of the Cardiovascular
System
• Heart muscle receives supply of oxygen
and nutrients through the coronary artery
system
• Blood that flows through the heart to the
body is not used for energy for the heart
tissues
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Function of the Cardiovascular
System
• As blood leaves the left
ventricle rich with oxygen
it enters immediately into
aorta and the coronary
arteries to supply the
heart muscle
• Deoxygenated blood
returns to the general
circulation through the
cardiac veins which
empty into the coronary
sinus in the right atrium
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Heart Valves
• Act as gates to
prevent the backward
flow of blood
• Open and shut in
response to the
changing pressure
brought about by
cardiac contraction
and relaxation
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Conduction System of the Heart
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Conduction System of the Heart
• The SA Node normally serves as the pacemaker
of the heart
• If the SA Node fails, other areas may serve as
the pacemaker as well
– AV Node: will generate slower rates (40-60 beats per
minute)
– Bundle of His: will generate rates less than 40 beats
per minute
– Purkinje system: will also generate rhythms in an
emergency
• SA Node: Normal resting rate of 60-80 beats per
minute
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Heart Sounds Associated with
Abnormal Conditions
• Heart murmurs, caused by:
– Damaged valves
– Regurgitation or back flow of blood through a
valve
– High flow rates
– All of which cause a kind of turbulence
• Gallops or galloping rhythm
– An abnormal rhythm indicated by three
distinct sounds in each heartbeat similar to
the sounds of a galloping horse
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Questions?
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