Cardiovascular quiz 1
Test yourself, then practice it on the patient.
Ten questions from real Making Synapses patient cases. Choose the diagnosis, then practice the case on the patient.
1. Man with months of fatigue, orthopnea and a large heart after heavy drinking
Diagnosis?
2. Teen athlete who fainted during soccer, murmur louder with Valsalva
Diagnosis?
3. Older man with heart failure, normal heart size and amyloid clues
Diagnosis?
4. Woman with chest pain after her husband's death, normal arteries
Diagnosis?
5. Palpitations and an irregularly irregular pulse
Rhythm?
6. Palpitations with a steady rate of 150
Rhythm?
7. Woman with digoxin toxicity and a regular narrow tachycardia
Cause?
8. Dizzy man with dropped beats on the ECG
Which AV block has a fixed PR and sudden dropped beats?
9. Woman with fatigue and heart rate 40 on a beta blocker
Cause?
10. Preoperative ECG shows a new left bundle branch block
Next step?