Buzz Words Flashcards
Bat wings on X-rays
Pulmonary oedema
Respiratory problems - antigen testing confirms diagnosis
Legionella
Crushing central chest pain radiating to arm and jaw, nausea, sweating, ST elevation on ECG, raised troponin levels
MI
Fever, pleuritic chest pain, pain relieved by sitting up and forward, saddle shaped mild ST elevation
Pericarditis
Irregularly irregular pulse, absent P waves
Atrial Fibrillation
Saw tooth ECG baseline pattern, tachycardia
Atrial flutter
Broad QRS, upstroke of R wave
Wolff-Parkinson White Disease
Raised JVP, Orthopnoea, PND, ankle oedema
Right sided heart failure
Pericarditis 4-6 weeks after MI
Dressler’s syndrome
Blurred yellow vision and headache
Digoxin toxicity
Tapping apex beat
Mitral stenosis
Pale stools, jaundice, abdomen pain
Biliary obstruction
Tinkling bowel sounds
Bowel obstruction
Vesicular rash, weight loss
Coeliac disease
Urea breath test
H-pylori
Old with LLQ pain
Diverticular disease
Normal PCWP, alcoholism, hypoxaemia, bilateral alveolar infiltrates, reduced lung compliance
Acute respiratory distress syndrome
Afro-Caribbean and high serum ACE
Sarcoidosis
What is indicated by non-displaced, tapping apex beat and a history of rheumatic fever.
Mitral stenosis
Putting on weight. Centrally obese and has a moon face
Cushing’s syndrome
Five F’s of ascites?
Fat Foetus Faeces Flatus Fluid
Give F’s of gall stones
Fair Female Forty Fat Fertile
