Sawtooth" P waves - Classic ECG finding in atrial flutter.
Angina is new, is worsening, or occurs at rest - Definition of unstable angina.
ACEI - Antihypertensive for a diabetic patient with proteinuria.
Hypotension,
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Sawtooth" P waves - Classic ECG finding in atrial flutter.
Angina is new, is worsening, or occurs at rest - Definition of unstable angina.
ACEI - Antihypertensive for a diabetic patient with proteinuria.
Hypotension, distant heart sounds, and JVD - Beck's triad for cardiac tamponade.
β-blockers, digoxin, calcium channel blockers - Drugs that slow AV node transmission.
Niacin - Hypercholesterolemia treatment that → flushing and pruritus.
Anticoagulation, rate control, cardioversion - Treatment for atrial fibrillation.
Immediate cardioversion - Treatment for ventricular fibrillation.
Dressler's syndrome: fever, pericarditis, ↑ ESR - Autoimmune complication occurring 2-4 weeks
post-MI.
Treat existing heart failure and replace the tricuspid valve - IV drug use with JVD and holosystolic
murmur at the left sternal border. Treatment?
Echocardiogram (showing thickened left ventricular wall and outflow obstruction) - Diagnostic test
for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Pulsus paradoxus (seen in cardiac tamponade) - A fall in systolic BP of > 10 mmHg with inspiration.Low-voltage, diffuse ST-segment elevation - Classic ECG findings in pericarditis.
BP > 140/90 on three separate occasions two weeks apart - Definition of hypertension.
Renal artery stenosis, coarctation of the aorta, pheochromocytoma, Conn's syndrome, Cushing's
syndrome, unilateral renal parenchymal disease, hyperthyroidism, hyperparathyroidism - Eight
surgically correctable causes of hypertension.
Abdominal ultrasound and CT - Evaluation of a pulsatile abdominal mass and bruit.
> 5.5 cm, rapidly enlarging, symptomatic, or ruptured - Indications for surgical repair of abdominal
aortic aneurysm.
Morphine, O2, sublingual nitroglycerin, ASA, IV β-blockers, heparin - Treatment for acute coronary
syndrome.
Abdominal obesity, high triglycerides, low HDL, hypertension, insulin resistance, prothrombotic or
proinflammatory states - What is the metabolic syndrome?
Exercise stress treadmill with ECG - Appropriate diagnostic test? ■ A 50-year-old male with angina
can exercise to 85% of maximum predicted heart rate.
Pharmacologic stress test (e.g., dobutamine echo) - Appropriate diagnostic test? ■ A 65-year-old
woman with left bundle branch block and severe osteoarthritis has unstable angina.
Angina, ST-segment changes on ECG, or ↓ BP - Signs of active ischemia during stress testing
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