Buzzwords Flashcards
Patient has fever and pleuritic chest pain that is relieved by sitting up and leaning forward
Pericarditis
Irregularly irregular pulse
Atrial fibrillation
ECG - saw tooth baseline + 150 bpm
Atrial flutter
Alveolar bat’s wings, Kerley B lines, cardiomegaly, dilated prominent upper lobe vessels, pleural effusion
Pulmonary Oedema
Raised JVP/hepatojugular
Right sided heart failure
Sense of impending doom
MI
Saddle shaped ST elevation
Pericarditis
Broad complex tachycardia
Ventricular problem
Mid-diastolic murmur with a tapping, undisplaced apex
Mitral stenosis
Broad QRS with slurred upstroke on R wave (delta wave)
Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
Tall, tented T waves
Hyperkalaemia (and wide QRS complexes)
Patient gets pericarditis 4-6 weeks post MI
Dressler’s syndrome
Blurred yellowing vision headache
Digoxin toxicity
Janeway lesions and Osler’s nodes
Subacute bacterial endocarditis
Continuous machine like heart murmur
Patent Ductus Arteriosus