Learning Objectives

Understand:

  • Heart structures, functions, and their relevancy to arrhythmias
  • The heart’s location and orientation
  • Proper terminology in referencing the heart’s anatomy
  • Normal heart conduction
  • The role of the coronary arteries in cardiac circulation

Identify:

  • Veins
  • Arteries
  • Valves
  • Crista Terminalis
  • Eustachian Valve Ridge
  • RVOT

The Heart's Main Structures

Anatomical Overview with 3D Model
Video Self Check Questions
Anatomical Overview with Real Anatomy
Optional: Coronary Circulation of the Heart
View Self Check Answers

The Heart's Location

Anatomy of the Thorax

Normal Heart Function

Overview of Cardiac Function
The Cardiac Cycle
Optional: The Cardiac Cycle in More Detail

The Heart's Electrical Conduction

Cardiac Conduction System
Cardiac Action Potential
Optional: Intrinsic Cardiac Conduction System
Optional: Extrinsic Cardiac Conduction System
Optional: Living Arrhythmias

Resources

Optional material to augment learning

Atlas of Cardiac Anatomy

by: Shumpei Mori & Kalyanam Shivkumar

*Not required for assessment

Download Book

STOP

Please take the Anatomy of the Heart Assessment in Dot Compliance

Next