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Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation on JVP Examination

What information about the patient do we get from this #JVP
Cardiac rhythm? ... Underlying structural heart ... #PhysicalExam # ... Clinical #Video ... #Cardiology
Canon A waves on Physical Examination

Associated with complete heart block. Notice the relatively slow HR. Echocardiography
with complete heart ... CanonA #Waves #Clinical ... #video #PhysicalExam ... #cardiology #JVP
The HEART Score for Chest Pain Patients in the ED

Calculate the HEART Score @ https://www.mdcalc.com/heart-score-major-cardiac-events

#Diagnosis #Management
The HEART Score ... for Chest Pain Patients ... www.mdcalc.com/heart-score-major-cardiac-events ... #Diagnosis #Management ... #Cardiology #HEARTScore
Acute Heart Failure Exacerbation - Diagnostic Likelihood Ratios
+LR > 3.5:
 • Overall judgement of ED physician
Exacerbation - Diagnostic ... failure • JVD ... Examination #chf #cardiology ... #heartfailure #physicalexam ... #diagnosis
Pericardial Tamponade
Beck's Triad 
1. Hypotension 
2. Jugular venous distension 
3. Muffled heart sounds 
Patient will be
Muffled heart sounds ... sounds, JVD and ... #Pericardial #Cardiac ... #Becks #Triad #Diagnosis ... #Cardiology
Myxedema Heart on Echocardiogram
52F with weeks of shortness of breath, pedal edema and constipation.  Exam
Myxedema Heart on ... Exam with JVD, anasarca ... presenting with heart ... Echocardiogram #clinical ... #cardiology #pocus
HEART Score allows us to risk stratify low risk chest pain patients and get them out
HEART Score allows ... stratify low risk chest ... Calculate the HEART ... www.mdcalc.com/heart-score-major-cardiac-events ... #Diagnosis #Cardiology
Myocarditis
Diagnosis 
• Endomyocardial biopsy (gold standard, rarely performed) 
• Clinical presentation 
• Cardiovascular MRI 
Clinical 
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Myocarditis Diagnosis ... performed) • Clinical ... intolerance • Chest ... shock, sudden cardiac ... #Management #Cardiology
Right Heart Cath - Normal Cardiac Pressures

Right Atrial Pressure (RAP) or Central Venous Pressure (CVP)
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Right Heart Cath ... Venous Pressure (CVP ... thematttsai #Right #Heart ... Pressures #RHC #cardiology ... #diagnosis
Kussmaul's sign in Constrictive Pericarditis 

A 50-year-old woman with a remote history of mediastinal lymphoma (age
There is an extra heart ... the underlying diagnosis ... Kussmauls #Sign #PhysicalExam ... #Video #Clinical ... Pericarditis #Cardiology