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Jugular Waveform Components 
 • a wave - due to atrial contraction: It occurs just before
• x descent - ... • c wave - caused ... • x descent - ... is caused by the ... Waveforms #JVP #PhysicalExam
Acute Mountain Sickness 
Low partial pressure of oxygen at high altitude 
• Stop ascent 
• Supportive
altitude • Stop ascent ... hyperbaric chamber • Descent ... Signs #Diagnosis #Management
Abnormal Jugular Venous Pressure Waveforms - Differential Diagnosis
 - Absent a wave - Atrial fibrillation, sinus
- Prominent x descent ... percarditis - Slow y descent ... myxoma - Rapid y descent ... defect - Absent y descent ... Differential #Diagnosis #PhysicalExam
Abnormal Jugular Venous Pressure (JVP) Algorithm
Outward Wave / Peak
 • With Every Beat
Concordant with S1 - X-Descent ... Discordant with S1 - Y-Descent ... diagnosis #cardiology #physicalexam
Campbell’s sign or Tracheal Descent in Longstanding COPD

Patients with longstanding COPD may show downward displacement of
sign or Tracheal Descent ... sign #Tracheal #Descent ... trachea #neck #physicalexam
RA/CVP Waveform Interpretation

Central venous pressure (CVP) or right atrial pressure (RAP) waveform tracings can often times
waves and two descents ... “cannon waves” caused ... - ‘c’ wave (TV cusps ... blunting of ‘x’ descent ... - ‘y’ descent
Tracheal Descent Sign

Paradoxical inward movement of the trachea during inspiration. Seen in this COPD patient in
Tracheal Descent ... #Tracheal #Descent ... clinical #video #physicalexam
Causes of Erythema Nodosum
Common
 - Idiopathic (up to 55 percent)
 - Infections: streptococcal pharyngitis (28 to
Causes of Erythema ... Idiopathic (up to 55 percent ... Drugs (3 to 10 percent ... Pregnancy (2 to 5 percent ... Erythema #Nodosum #Causes
Common Etiologies of Cirrhosis

Inflammation

 - Hepatitis B (15 percent)

 - Hepatitis C (47 percent)

 - Schistosomiasis
Hepatitis B (15 percent ... Hepatitis C (47 percent ... - Alcohol (18 percent ... ) Unknown (14 percent ... Hepatology #Cirrhosis #Causes
Myocarditis - Diagnosis and Causes
 • Clinical presentation: Pseudo-acute coronary syndrome, Cardiac failure <3 rnonths, Cardiogenic
Diagnosis and Causes ... arrythmia, syncope ± Recent ... diagnosis: Ischernic cause ... differential #Diagnosis #Causes