Atrial Septal Defect: mixing of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood in the right atrium. Shunting of blood from left atria (higher pressure) to the right atria (lower pressure). Causes increase in pulmonary blood flow (the deoxygenated blood traveling to the lungs)

Atrial Septal Defect Nursing

Nursing school cardiac notes - atrial septal defect - congenital pediatric heart defect - mixing of oxygenated blood in the right atrium due to a hole between the right and left atrium. Blood shunts from left to right. Increase in pumonary blood flow.