Miscellaneous Flashcards
Beck’s Triad
Muffled heart sounds
Hypotension
Inc JVP
(Cardiac Tamponade)
MC type of murmur
Midsystolic soft murmurs
Murmurs necessitating 2D echo
Loud systolic Holosystolic Late systolic All diastostolic Continuous murmurs
Malar telangiectasia is a cutaneous manifestation of which CVD
Severe MS
Peripheral edema + Normal venous pressure
Venous insufficiency (MCC) Lymphatic obstruction Venous obstruction
> 10mmHg decrease in SBP with inspiration
Pulsus paradoxus
seen in: pericardial effusion, cardiac tamponade, massive PTE, hemorrhagic shock, severe COPD, tension pneumothorax
Slow, notched or interrupted upstroke
Anacrotic pulse (Pulsus parvus et tardus)
*aortic stenosis
Cardiac cycle with two systolic peaks
Bifid/Bisferiens pulse
AR and HCMP
Normal BP difference between arms
<10mmHg
legs: <20mmHg
High BP differentials
Aortic dissection
Atherosclerotic or inflammatory subclavian artery disease
Supraclavicular AS
CoA
Reversed split S1
LBBB
Severe MS
LA myxoma
Wide split s2
RBBB
Severe MR
Associated with click sound
MVP
Pericardial knock
Constrictive pericarditis
Opening snap
Mitral stenosis
Increases the murmur of MVP and HOCM
Standing
Valsalva or coughing
Decreases the murmur of MVP and HOCM
Squatting
Passive leg raising
Handgrip exercise
Early diastolic murmurs
Aortic regurgitation
Pulmonic regurgitation
RAE on ECG
Tall peaked P waves (>/=2.5 mm) in limb and precordial leads
LAE on ECG
Biphasic P wave in limb leads or notched in limb leads
LVH on ECG
RV5 or RV6 >25mm
SV1 + RV5 or V6 >/=35mm
RVH on ECG
R>S on V1 with RAD or
R, RS, qR pattern in V1 or
ST depression and T wave inversion in the right to midprecordial leads
Triggered automaticity secondary to afterdepolarizations during and action potential
Torsades de pointes
Delayed afterdepolarizations
Digitalis toxicity
Reperfusion VT
Tacchyarrhythmia occuring primarily among patients with chronic pulmo disease
Multifocal atrial tachycardia
Drug-induced Mobitz Type 1
B blockers
Non Dihydropyridines
MC tachycardia caused by an acessory pathway
AV reentry tachycardia (AVRT)
*orthodromic