Cardiology Flashcards
Patient has a fever and pleuritic chest pain that is relieved by sitting up and leaning forward?
Pericarditis
Irregularly irregular pulse
Atrial Fibrillation
ECG has a saw tooth baseline + 150 bpM
Atrial flutter
Alveolar bat wing’s, Kerley B lines, cardiomegaly, dilated prominent upper lobe vessels,
Pulmonary Oedema
Raised JVP/ hepatojugular reflex
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 broad upstroke on R wave (delta wave)
Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
Tall tented T wave with wide QRS complex
Hyperkalaemia
Patient gets pericarditis 4-6 weeks after MI
Dressler’s syndrome
Blurred yellowing vision headache
Digoxin toxicity
Janeway lesions/ Osler’s nodes
Subacute bacterial endocarditis
Continous machine like heart murmur
Patent Ductus Arteriosis
Rib notching on CXR
Coarctation of the aorta
Crescendo Decrescendo murmur
Aortic Stenosis
Diminished/ absent lower limb pulses
Coarctation of the aorta
Are mitral regurgitation and aortic stenosis systolic or diastolic?
Systolic (MRS ASS)
Reversible causes of cardiac arrest?
Hypovolaemia Hypothermia Hyperkalaemia/hypokalaemia Hypoxia Tamponade Tension pneumothorax Thromboembolism Toxin (4 H's and 4 T's)
Features of acute limb ischaemia?
Pale,Pulseless, Painful, Paralysed, Paraesthetic, Perishingly cold (6 P’s)
Radio-femoral delay?
Coarctation of the aorta
Radio-radial delay?
Coarctation or aortic dissection
Systolic murmur that radiates to the neck?
Aortic stenosis