Management of ACS for the BLS Provider

Anatomy of the Heart
  • The heart can simply be understood as a two-sided pump consisting of two atria and two ventricles. 
  • The heart muscle is known as the myocardium.
  • The layers that make up the wall of the heart are the pericardium, the parietal pericardium and the visceral pericardium. [25, 27]