Atrioventricular Node Essay
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The Atrioventricular Node (AVN)
• This is the node that involves both the atria and ventricles.
• The AVN is deep in the centre of the heart muscle.
• It picks up the wave sent by the SAN and delays it by about 0.1s to let the atria finish contracting before the AVN sends the second wave.
• The AVN uses the Purkyne tissue (a conducting tissue) to the apex.
• The wave is sent up through the ventricles making them contract, pushing the blood through the semilunar valves, aorta and the pulmonary artery.
[pic]
Left atrium is filled with oxygenated blood from the lungs.
The pressure in the pulmonary artery is higher than in the heart, but the semi lunar valve is pushed shut. This stops blood from going back into the heart. …show more content…
• This wave makes the atria contract.
• It doesn’t pass through the ventricles because of a line of fibrous non-conducting tissue between the atria and the ventricles.
• The wave reaches the other patch of heart muscle called the Atrioventricular Node (AVN).
This pressure pushes open the semi lunar valves (tricuspid valves) at the base of the pulmonary artery and blood leaves the heart.
A+V diastole (dup)
Atrial Systole
The ventricles relax (diastole) and the pressure instide them lowers. The atria are relaxed too.
The pressure of the blood in the ventricles increases as they fill with
The Atrioventricular Node (AVN)
• This is the node that involves both the atria and ventricles.
• The AVN is deep in the centre of the heart muscle.
• It picks up the wave sent by the SAN and delays it by about 0.1s to let the atria finish contracting before the AVN sends the second wave.
• The AVN uses the Purkyne tissue (a conducting tissue) to the apex.
• The wave is sent up through the ventricles making them contract, pushing the blood through the semilunar valves, aorta and the pulmonary artery.
[pic]
Left atrium is filled with oxygenated blood from the lungs.
The pressure in the pulmonary artery is higher than in the heart, but the semi lunar valve is pushed shut. This stops blood from going back into the heart. …show more content…
• This wave makes the atria contract.
• It doesn’t pass through the ventricles because of a line of fibrous non-conducting tissue between the atria and the ventricles.
• The wave reaches the other patch of heart muscle called the Atrioventricular Node (AVN).
This pressure pushes open the semi lunar valves (tricuspid valves) at the base of the pulmonary artery and blood leaves the heart.
A+V diastole (dup)
Atrial Systole
The ventricles relax (diastole) and the pressure instide them lowers. The atria are relaxed too.
The pressure of the blood in the ventricles increases as they fill with