Name: Denzel C.

Tupas Section: BSN-4C

Instructor: Mr. Emmanuel Immaculata, RN, MAN. Date: August 14, 2023

Module 1 Pre-Task - Blood Circulation

Instructions: Familiarity with the circulation of blood through the heart and body is
related to the succeeding lessons. To review your prior knowledge, you can trace the
normal circulation of blood through the heart and body. Use Google Drawings to illustrate
and describe the circulation, then convert to pdf. You may post your answers in the
discussion board. Thank you.

Overview: The heart is a big, muscular organ that continuously pumps blood with oxygen
to the brain and extremities and carries blood with low oxygen levels from the brain and
extremities to the lungs for oxygenation. The right atrium receives blood from the body,
which then flows into the right ventricle and is forced into the pulmonary arteries in the
lungs. The blood returns to the heart via the pulmonary veins, passing through the left
atrium, left ventricle, and aorta before exiting to the body's tissues.

Deoxygenated Blood Circulation in the Heart:

• Pulmonary circulation is the system of transportation that shunts de-oxygenated
blood from the heart to the lungs to be re-saturated with oxygen before being
dispersed into the systemic circulation.
 • Deoxygenated blood from the lower half of the body enters the heart from the inferior
vena cava while deoxygenated blood from the upper body is delivered to the heart via
the superior vena cava.
• Both the superior vena cava and inferior vena cava empty blood into the right atrium.
• Blood flows through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle. It then flows through
the pulmonic valve into the pulmonary artery before being delivered to the lungs.
• While in the lungs, blood diverges into the numerous pulmonary capillaries where it
releases carbon dioxide and is replenished with oxygen.

Oxygenated Blood Circulation in the Heart:

• Once fully saturated with oxygen, the blood is transported via the pulmonary vein
into the left atrium which pumps blood through the mitral valve and into the left
ventricle.
• With a powerful contraction, the left ventricle expels oxygen-rich blood through the
aortic valve and into the aorta.
• Thus, beginning the systemic circulation.