Circulatory System

Circulation Heart
Prepared by: Armin T. Mercado

Objectives
Explore the structure and function of the heart and blood vessels Explore the interaction of the circulatory system with other body systems

 Wherever you go, go with all your heart. Confucius

Introduction
The Circulatory System is the main cooling and transportation system for the human body The body has about 5 liters of blood continuously traveling through it by way of the Circulatory System In the Circulatory System, the heart, lungs, and blood vessels have to work together The Circulatory System has three different parts: pulmonary circulation (lungs), coronary circulation

Function:
To transport materials around the body Oxygen

Carbon dioxide
Digested food Hormones Waste chemicals - urea Heat

This organ is what pumps oxygen rich blood, nutrients, hormones, and the other things your body needs to maintain your health, to your organs and (Superior Vena Cava) tissues. From the Body The pulmonary veins you see on the right side of the diagram come from your lungs, where the blood cells collect oxygen. Its then pumped out to the rest of the body through the Aorta (Top).

The Heart
Pulmonary Artery (Aortic Artery) To the body

Pulmonary Veins
Valves: (tricuspid valve semilunar (pulmonary) valve, bicuspid (mitral) valve, and the semilunar (aortic) valve

All of the blue sections show blood cells carrying waste, (C02) moving back to the lungs (where the C02 will be replaced by oxygen) through the Pulmonary Artery (Top, blue)

By The Way

(Inferior Vena Cava) From the Body

Whenever the blood is pumped from one section of the heart another a valve closes behind it preventing the blood from moving backwards.

Blood Flow through Heart

Blood from the body travels into the right atrium, moves into the right ventricle, and is finally pushed into lungs in the pulmonary arteries The blood then picks up oxygen and travels back to the heart into the left atrium through the pulmonary veins The blood then travels through the to the Left Ventricle and exits to the body through the Right Atrium Aorta

Left Atrium

Blood Flow to Arms

Oxygen rich blood leaves the heart and travels through arteries In the capillaries the oxygen and food is given to the bodys cells The blood finally travels back through veins to the heart to pick up oxygen

ARTERIES- FROM HEART

CAPILLARIES VEINS- TO HEART

Path to the Exchange

Pulmonary Vein

Aorta
Brachial Artery Renal Artery Redial Artery Ulnar Artery Iliac Artery

A red blood cell then travels from the heart through arteries that eventually branch into the bodys vast system of capillaries (microscopic blood vessels which connect arteries and veins), they eventually lead to

e Exchange
Oxy-Rich Blood Cell

When the itty bitty teeny tiny red blood cells pass the desired tissue they.
Tissue

TRANSACT

The oxygen the blood cells are carrying is given to the bodys tissue. And the CO2 (waste) from the tissue is given to the same blood cell to be exhaled.

Tissue
Oxy-Poor Blood Cell

How It Works

Technically the Hemoglobin in the blood (a substance full of iron) attracts oxygen from the lungs. The red blood cell then carries it to the desired tissue. Because this tissue has a high CO2 count the hemoglobin lets go of its oxygen and collects the carbon dioxide. You see the hemoglobin has an affinity for whichever gas has a greater count. Because the tissue has a large amount of built up waste (CO2) the hemoglobin attracts it and then replaces it with oxygen, and vise versa in the lungs.

Now lets travel to the legs!!!

Blood Flow to Legs

!FUN FACT!
Approximately 500 ml of blood moves from the heart and lungs down to the legs when a person stands up after lying down

The oxygen rich blood cells then travel through the capillaries where yet another

ge Occurs,

The oxygen and CO2 are exchangedin the cells

Oxygen Rich

Tissue
Dont forget that the Hemoglobin in the blood cells let go of the cells oxygen because of the large CO2 (waste) count in the tissue.
Oxygen Poor

Oxygen Rich

Oxygen Poor

Circulation back to Heart

To upper body From upper body To lung To lung From lung Right Atrium Right Ventricle From lower body
From lung

Left Atrium

Left Ventricle To lower body

Capillaries carry the blood to Venules that connect to veins and the Veins (wide blood vessels) carries the oxygen-poor blood back to the heart.

Double Circulation
Right side
Deoxygenated blood from the body is returned to the heart to be pumped to the lungs

Left side
Oxygenated blood from the lungs enters the heart and is pumped to the body organs and tissues

Pulmonary system up to the lungs

CARBON DIOXIDE

OXYGEN

Systemic to the organs of the body

Body organs

Blood to the ?
Blood from ?

Blood to the ?

Blood from lungs

right atrium

Left atrium

valve

Right ventricle

Left ventricle

RIGHT SIDE

LEFT SIDE

Beating heart blood flow

The valves prevent the backflow of blood.

How do the valves work? How many can you see?

out

Can you see the 4 valves?

Atrium and ventricle muscles force the blood through and out of the heart

in

in

Conclusion
As you have learned (Hopefully) the Circulatory System is one of the most important systems in the human body It is the

only
reason youre still alive today
and you can attribute the cooling down, feeding of and protection of your body to it.

So the next time you bust open your leg skateboarding you can thank your Circulatory System for patching you up.

 He who opens a school door, closes a prison. Victor Hugo