Cardio Flashcards
Fever + pleuritic chest pain that is relieved by sitting up and leaning forwards
Pericarditis
Irregularly irregular pulse
Atrial fibrillation
ECG -> saw tooth baseline + 150bpm
Atrial flutter
Raised JVP / hepatojugular
Right-sided heart failure
Sense of impeding 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 (+wide QRS complexes)
Patient gets pericarditis 4-6 weeks post MI
Dressers syndrome
Blurred yellowing vision headache
Digoxin toxicity
Jane way lesions/oslers 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
Side effect of ACEi
Dry cough
Contraindication with ACEi
Renal artery stenosis
Radial-radial delay
Aortic dissection/coarctation of the aorta
Collapsing pulse
Aortic regurgitation
Slow rising pulse
Aortic stenosis
Splinter haemorrhages
Infective endocarditis
Most common cause of acute infective endocarditis
Staph. Aureus
Most common cause of subacute infective endocarditis
Viridans streptococci (esp. in pre-damaged native valves)
infective endocarditis after prosthetic valve/ surgery
Staph. Epidermis
Farming
Coxiella burneti
Brucella
Goats
Immune compromised/ IV drug user/ IV lines
Fungi
IV drug user
Staph. Aureus
(Sometimes candida)
Atrial myxoma
Noncancerous tumour in the upper left or right side of the heart.
Most often grows on the wall that separates the two sides of the heart
4 H’s and 4 T’s responsible for cardiac arrest
Hypovolaemia
Hypothermia
Hyperkalaemia/hypokalaemia
Hypoxia
Tamponade
Tension pneumothorax
Thromboembolism
Toxin
6 P’s of pale limb ischaemia
Pale
Pulseless
Painful
Paralysed
Paraesthetic
Perishingly cold
