Category: Cardiac

Abdominojugular Test (AJT)

The Hepato-Jugular Reflux (HJR) test was originally described by Pasteur in 1885 as a sign of tricuspid regurgitation (TR) [1].

Kussmaul described the “paradoxen puls” in 1873 (though Wilhelm Griesinger may have discovered it in 1854) as a paradox because

The key Ultrasound findings to look for when you suspect tamponade are a Pericardial effusion plus the following: IVC dilation

Steven Mcgee described 6 murmur patterns, after the seemingly painstaking process of examining 376 patients with systolic murmurs and correlating

In 1935, Claude S. Beck remarked (boasted?) that “Osler not infrequently lamented his failure to recognize…” and Laënnec had “problems

It is true that agreement on murmurs has been found sub-optimal (i.e. κ = 0.19 for if a systolic murmur

The angle of the bed should be adjusted to put the meniscus of the Jugular veins between the angle of

In the JAMA rational clinical exam series, elevated JVP (or JVD) has a reported pooled +LR of 5.1 and -LR of 0.66 for

The third heart sound has good (as far as exam findings go) operating characteristics for determining if a patient has

In this JAMA Rational Clinical Exam article [1] the best historical features and patients symptoms to discriminate CHF from other