Describe the events of a cardiac cycle based upon contracting
and relaxation phases.
Describe the activity of each chamber during cardiac systole and
cardiac diastole. Be able to relate the electrical activity of the
heart (depolarization, repolarization) to the corresponding
electrical activity depicted on a typical ECG/EKG tracing. Label
and define the waves.
Trace the depolarization pathway through the intrinsic
conduction system components. Compare and contrast cardiac and
skeletal muscle contraction.
Describe all the events (steps) that occur during a cardiac
cycle for mammals (organisms with a double circulation), as well as
the opening and closing of all heart valves and the signals arising
from the SA and AV nodes How does this cycle contribute to
metabolic homeostasis for our cells, and what is the purpose of the
valves?
Describe the physiological events occurring in the heart muscle
represented by each ECG component (the P wave, QRS complex, and T
wave). Why does the QRS complex have the largest amplitude?
describes the events of the cardiac cycle align with the heart
sounds and the components of an ecg.
When you inhale, does your chest expand because your
lungs inflate, or does lungs inflate because your chest
expands?
Explain what causes air to move in and out of the
lungs.
Our body is pretty amazing at protecting itself.
Compare and contrast:
- the innate vs. adaptive immune systems
- the two types of adaptive responses
Your older sister is in training...
Which of the following best describes the events of the cardiac
cycle?
A. ventricular diastole - atrial diastole - atrial systole
B. systole - diastole
C. atrial systole - ventricular systole - diatolediastole
D. dub - lub - lub
Using the Wigger's diagram, explain the relationship between
electrical and mechanical events during the cardiac cycle
(mechanical events are actions of chamber and valves and involve
pressure, flow and volume of blood).
Beginning with all chambers of the heart in the "relaxed" phase,
describe the cardiac cycle in mammals, with systole and diastole of
the atria and ventricles. For each time point in the cycle you
select, state the following:
Whether the atria and ventricles are contracting or relaxing
Whether the AV valves and semilunar valves are closed or
open
Whether the pressure in the atria and ventricles is high or
low