Cardiology Flashcards
(37 cards)
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
Continuous Machine like Heart Murmur
Patent Ductus Arteriosus
Rib Notching on CXR
Coarctation of the aorta
Crescendo decrescendo murmur
Aortic Stenosis
Diminished absent lower limb pulses
Coarctation of the aorta
radio-femoral delay
coarctation of the aorta
radio-radial delay
coarctation or aortic dissection
MRS ASS
Mitral Regurgitation Systolic, Aortic Stenosis Systolic
Systolic murmur, radiates to the neck
Aortic Stenosis
Sudden tearing/ripping chest pain, radiates to back
Aortic Dissection
