The Cardiac Conduction System - created from Mind Map

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Blood enters the right atrium and passes through the triscupid valve and makes it way to the right ventricule.

Brandi Reeves

The electrical part of the heart

The body has electrical currents.

It then moves from the pulmonary valve, into the pulmonary artery to the lungs.

After picking up oxgen into the lungs, the blood moves out of the lungs into the pulmonary veins, into the left atrium, through the mitral valve, and into the left ventricule that pushes blood to the body through the aortic valve.

Once blood leaves the heart it is in aorta where it flows to various parts of the body.

(1) The (SA) node is the hearts pacemaker. Sets a rate of 60-100.

(2) The (AV) node is Av branch. It sets a rate of 40-60.

upper right atrium

Purkinje Fibers initates a rate of 20-40 beats per minute.

Lower back section of the interatrial septum

Body characteristics: Contractability, Excitability, Automacity