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
Rib notching on CXR
Coarctation of the aorta
Crescendo decrescendo murmur
Aortic stenosis
Diminished absent lower limb pulses
Coarctation of the aorta
MRS ASS
Mitral Regurgitation Systolic, Aortic Stenosis Systolic
4 H’s and 4 T’s for reversible causes of cardiac arrest
Hypovolaemia Hypothermia Hyoerkalaemia/hypokalaemia Hypoxia Tamponade Tension pneumothorax Thromboembolism Toxin
Test to rule out heart failure
Brain-type natriuretic peptide
Blood test for suspected chronic heart failure?
Transthoracic echocardiogram
Collapse during heat, standing up and feels normal afterwards?
Vasovagal syncope
63 year old man with history of high blood pressure, sudden-onset tearing chest pain radiating to back?
Aortic dissection
