Cardiac Cycle Heart Beat Blood Pressure
Cardiac Cycle Heart Beat Blood Pressure
Cardiac Cycle Heart Beat Blood Pressure
Blood Pressure
My Pulse Rate
• Have a seat and relax for 5 minutes. Take your own
pulse from your wrist for 60 seconds or 1 minute.
Record your observation.
• Jump 10 times. Take your pulse rate right after
jumping. Record your observation.
• Take your seat. Rest and relax for another 5 minutes.
Take your pulse rate again. Record observation. Give at
least two observations from this activity.
Cardiac Cycle
Sequence of events that happens when the heart
beats.
Pacemaker – maintains and sets the rate at which the heart contracts.
Sinoatrial node (SA) is the pacemaker of the heart.
• It sends signals to the right and left atria so both will contract in unison.
• The signal passes through a relay point called the atrioventricular node (AV).
• AV the signal is delayed to ensure that the atria will be the first to contract before
the ventricles will contract.
• Signals from the Purkinje fibers trigger the strong contraction of the ventricles.
Blood Pressure and its Measurement