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Jenna Danielle
Jenna Danielleabout 6 years ago

Nursing student... Need help remembering the blood flow of the heart, any tips?

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about 6 years ago

The way that I learnt it was I wrote it out over and over again. While I wrote it out I visualised the flow in my head. I wrote it like this; Deoxygenated blood enters through the sup. and inf. vena cava —> into right atrium —> through the tricuspid valve —> into right ventricle —> through pulmonary semi lunar valve —> through pulmonary trunk —> exit heart into lungs via pulmonary artery’s —> becomes oxygenated —> re enters the heart via pulmonary veins —> into left atrium —> through bicuspid (mitral) valve —> into left ventricle —> projected up through aortic semilunar valve into aorta —> oxygenated blood sent out into body to tissues. I’m not sure what detail you need it in as I’m not nursing I am med, but I have a really good diagram that I drew that is the clearest thing to me and I can visualise it very easily. Would you like me to send a picture of it ?

about 6 years ago

Easy way: AV AV, left deoxygenated and right oxygenated. From there you can fill in all of the details

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about 6 years ago

Hello, first the heart has 4 chambers as brief: Right Atrium(RA), Left Atrium(LA), Right Ventricle(RV) and Left Ventricle(LV). Deoxygenated Blood comes from the SVC (Superior Vena Cava) ie Upper body and IVC (Inferior Vena Cava) ie Lower body; from there, blood enters into the RA->passes the Tricuspid Valve-> enters the RV, then goes into the lungs through the Pulmonary artery via the Pulmonary valve, there it becomes oxygenated and comes back to the heart into the LA via the Pulmonary veins, goes into the LV via the Bicuspid valve, then supplies the entire body by passing through the arch of the aorta via the Aortic valve. The cycle continues.

about 6 years ago

Hope it will be helpful.

about 6 years ago

Try to watch the osmosis video or video lecture of Dr najeeb. It will give u good concept

about 6 years ago

Draw a simple schema and try to remember it

about 6 years ago

Thankyou all so much!

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