Cardiovascular Flashcards
Patient has fever and pleuritic chest pain that is relieved by sitting up and leaning forward
Pericarditis
Irregularly irregular pulse/no clear P waves
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 reflux
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/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 , slow rising pulse
Aortic Stenosis
collapsing pulse
aortic regurgitation
bounding pulse
Acute CO2 retention
Diminished absent lower limb pulses, radiofemoral delay
coarctation of the aorta
MRS ASS
(Mitral Regurgitation Systolic, Aortic Stenosis Systolic)
Tetralogy of Fallot
Pulmonary stenosis, ventricular septal defect, overriding aorta, right ventricular hypertrophy.
