Cardiology 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
4 H’s and 4T’s for reversible causes of cardiac arrest-
Hypovolaemia, Hypothermia, Hyperkalaemia/hypokalaemia, Hypoxia, Tamponade, Tension pneumothorax ,Thromboembolism, Toxin
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/Osler’s Nodes
Subacute bacterial endocarditis