CVPR Week 3: Listening to heart murmurs Flashcards
What causes heart murmurs?
Turbulent flow
Turbulent flow
Forward flow
Backward flow
Shunt from left side circulation to right side or vice versa
What determines how loud a murmur is?
2 listed
- Degree of turbulence
- Shape and thickness of the chest wall
What determines the length of time a murmur can be heard?
Length proportional to the duration of turbulence
How do we describe murmurs?
5 listed
- Timing *systole vs diastole)
- Intensity
- Location
- Radiation
- Frequency (pitch)
- Related to velocity
- Stethoscope to help distinguish frequencies
Stethoscope: Bell for?
Low frequencies
Stethoscope: Diaphragm for?
high frequencies
Grading of heart murmurs
Grade 1 Heart Murmur
Very faint
not always heard in all positions
Grade 2 Heart Murmur
quiet but not difficult to hear
Grade 3 Heart Murmur
moderately loud
Grade 4 Heart Murmur
Loud +/- thrills
Grade 5 Heart Murmur
- Very loud +/- thrills
- may be heard with stethoscope partly off the chest
Grade 6 Heart Murmur
- may be heard with stethoscope completely off the chest
- +/- thrills
Cardiac Auscultation sites
Shape of murmurs
- Systolic
- Diastolic
Evaluating Cardiac Murmurs
9 listed
Position of murmur
Position of murmur: Supine
General auscultation and most heart sounds
Position of murmur: Sitting up and leaning forward and holding exhalation
- Aortic stenosis
- aortic regurgitation
- Pericardial rubs
Position of murmur: Left lateral decubitus
S3, S4, Mitral stenosis (using bell of stethoscope)
Position of murmur: Valsalva manoeuver
increases intensity of mitral valve prolapse and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
decreases intensity of aortic stenosis
Position of murmur: Squating and standing
- increases intensity of aortic stenosis
- Decreases intensity of outflow obstruction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Describe
Heart sound questions: S1
S1
C: During isovolumetric contraction
Heart sound questions: S2
S2
during isovolumetric relaxation
S3 occurs when?
S4 occurs when?
Pressure-volume loop
In what phase of the pressure-volume loop is this heart?
Isovolumetric relaxation