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Heart & Pericardium/ Middle Mediastinum - Coggle Diagram
Heart & Pericardium/ Middle Mediastinum
Layers of the pericardial sac
Serous Pericardium
What are the two components (layers) of the pericardial sac? Where does the pericardial sac attach superiorly, inferiorly?
Where does parietal serous pericardium reflect onto the heart to become visceral serous
pericardium (epicardium)?
Fibrous Pericardium
What is the clinical importance of the fibrous component of the pericardial sac?
Important Fetal Remnants
What is the ligamentum arteriosum and what was its fetal function?
What was the fossa ovalis in the fetus? What was its function?
Anatomy of the Heart
Name two serous pericardial-lined sinuses/recesses of the pericardial sac.
Why is the transverse pericardial sinus important clinically?
In which specific region of the thorax is the heart and its pericardial sac located?
The apex of the heart projects in which direction?
Know the arrangement of the various components of the AV and semilunar valves.
Be able to identify the correct location for listening to the specific valve sounds for each valve of
the heart.
Neurovasculature: 8. Describe the blood supply and innervation to the pericardium. How is pain from the pericardium
referred?
Fibrous & Parietal Pericardium
Blood Supply
Venous Drainage
Innervation
Visceral Pericardium & The Heart
Innervation
Blood Supply
Which vessels primarily supply the muscular interventricular septum?
How do you determine coronary dominance of the heart?
Demonstrate the location of all of the major coronary vessels
Describe the internal features of each of the four chambers of the heart
Diagram the course of blood through the heart, beginning in the superior vena cava and ending in the ascending aorta
Venous Drainage
What is meant by the indirect nature of the venous drainage of the heart? Name an exception
to this indirect venous drainage and the locations drained.
General Innervation of the Mediastinum & Pericardium
Which spinal cord levels contain sympathetic neurons associated with innervating the cardiopulmonary plexus? How do these fibers access the plexus? Where do the parasympathetic fibers that penetrate this plexus come from?
What is the function of each ANS fiber type in the heart and the lungs?
Heart Medical Conditions
What is cardiac tamponade?
What is pericardiocentesis and where is it typically performed? (where = yellow stars in powerpoint)
Contraction of the Heart
Nodal Conducting System of the Heart
What is the moderator band? Where is it found? What is its function?
State the location of the SA and AV nodes of the conduction system of the heart.
Be able to trace the pathway of impulse conduction in the heart.
What is the function of the papillary mm.?