Word associations Flashcards
Irregularly Irregular Pulse
AF
Slow up-rising pulse
Aortic stenosis
Collapsing pulse
Aortic regurg
Bounding pulse
CO2 retention
hepatic failure
Sepsis
Radio femoral delay
Coarctation of aorta
Aortic dissection
Pulsus paradoxus
Constrictive pericarditis
Cardiac tamponade
Jerky Pulse
Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
Mitral regurgitation
Raised fixed JVP
SVC obstruction
JVP rising on inspiration
Constrictive pericarditis
Cardiac tamponade
Large ‘v’ waves
Triscuspid regurg
Absent ‘a’ waves
AF
Cannon ‘a’ waves
Complete heart block
AV dissociation
Ventricular arrhythmias
Malar flush
Mitral stenosis
Pulsatile hepatomegaly
Tricuspid regurg
Carotid pulsation (Corrigan’s sign)
Head nodding (De Musset’s sign)
Capillary pulsations in nail-bed (Quincke’s sign)
Pistol-shot heard over femorals (Traube’s sign)
Aortic regurgitation
Roth’s spots (boat-shaped retinal haemorrhages)
Osler’s nodes (painful hard swellings on fingers/toes) Janeway’s lesions (painless erythematous blanching macules seen on palmar surface)
Infective endocarditis
‘Saw-tooth’ pattern with normal complexes
Atrial flutter
Absent p waves
AF
Bifid P waves
left atrial hypertrophy
Peaked p waves
right atrial hypertrophy
ST depression
Myocardial ischaemia
ST elevation
MI
‘Saddle’-shaped ST elevation
Pericarditis
S I, Q III, T III pattern (deep S waves in I, Q waves in III,
inverted T waves in III)
PE
