Cardio - Vet Tech
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- Mediastinum
- central space that divides the left and right pleural cavities
- Location of the canine heart
- from 3rd to 6th intercostal space
- Location of equine/ruminant heart
- 2nd-6th intercostal space w/ apex at the pt. of the elbow
- Atria
- receive and hold venous blood
- ventricles
- pump blood away from the heart
- Aorta
- major artery exiting left ventricle
- pulmonary artery
- major artery exiting right ventricle
- cranial and caudal venal cava
- blood flows from these vessels into right atria
- right atrium
-
receives deoxygenated blood from cranial and caudal vena cava
acts as holding chamber of venous blood about to be pumped to lungs by RV - interatrial septum
- wall seperating right and left atrium
- foramen ovale
- opening bt right and left atrium. A hole in this is a defect in babies
- RIght AV valve
-
valve seperating RA from RV
open during systole - valve leaflets
- tri-cuspid
- Right ventricle
- pumps deO2 venous blood into the pulmonary circulation
- Pulmonic valve (semilunar)
- seperates RV from pulmonic artery exiting RV open during diastole