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Cardiovascular System Anatomy

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Anatomy Lectures

Embryology of the heart. Mediastinum. Pericardium. Heart chambers and valves. Auscultation of the cardiac valves. Echocardiogram. Coronary vessels. Coronary arteries and veins. Coronary artery origins. Coronary sinus. Cardiac conduction system. Autonomic innervation of the heart.

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Cardiology / Medical Foundation 1 / Part 1 / Week 1

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Understand the mediastinum, its divisions (superior, inferior, anterior, middle and posterior), content and surface anatomy
Describe the pericardium , its layers (fibrous and serous pericardium), layers of serous pericardium (parietal and visceral layer), identify the pericardial sac
Understand and indentify surface anatomy of the heart, its surfaces (anterior, diaphragmatic, posterior) and borders (right, inferior and left borders) , anatomic structure of cardiac chambers: right atrium (openings into the right atrium), right ventricle, left atrium (openings into the left atrium) and left ventricle, understand and describe atrial (inter atrial) septum and ventricular (inter ventricular) septum, structure of the heart, AV valves (tricuspid and mitral) & semilunar valves (pulmonary and aortic)and their surface anatomy
Describe the arterial supply and venous drainage of the heart

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