Blood Flow Through The Heart

1. Blood Flow through the Heart Visual Aid

2. Mnemonics Entering and Exiting V.E.T.A. – Veins enter the atrium Very entertaining, tops all A.L.T.V – Arteries leave the ventricles Americans love T.V. Order of Valves T.P.B.A. Tricuspid, Pulmonary, Bicuspid, Aortic The peanut butters awesome

3. Atriums & Ventricles Atrium on top Ventricle on bottom How to remember that? The ventricles look like V’s V = Ventricle A rteries push blood A way from the heart via the A orta

4. Blood Flow Blood Flow Song PUMP YOUR BLOOD!!!

5. Blood Flow is happening on both sides

6. Games I am the valve that deoxygenated blood flows through and I’m between the right atrium and right ventricle. What am I? Tricuspid Valve

7. Games This structure “dumps” deoxygenated blood into a certain atrium. What atrium and what are the structures? Right Atrium Superior & Inferior Vena Cava

8. Games This structure sends oxygenated blood away from the heart and to the body. Aorta

9. Games Does the right ventricle have deoxygenated or oxygenated blood? deoxygenated

10. Games Where does the Pulmonary Artery send blood? Is it deoxygenated or oxygenated? What is the valve that it contains? It sends deoxygenated blood to the lungs to become oxygenated. The valve is the Pulmonary Semilunar valve.

11. Games The Left atrium received oxygenated blood from what? Pulmonary Vein

12. Games What is the Valve between the Left atrium and the Left Ventricle? Bicuspid or Mitral Valve

13. Games The Left Ventricle sends oxygenated blood to the Aorta via the what? Aortic Semilunlar Valve

14. BONUS QUESTION This atrium houses a structure called the foramen ovale . It is open as a embryo, but closes once you are born. Right Atrium