Cardiovascular system
● Chest pain
● Acute myocardial infarction (MI)
● Acute coronary syndrome (ACS)
● Angina pectoris
● Electrocardiogram (ECG) – normal and abnormal
● Investigations (cardiac catheterisation; echocardiography; nuclear
cardiology; ECG: exercise/ ambulatory)
● Complications of MI (arrhythmias; hypertension)
● Atherosclerosis
● Fatigue
● Chronic heart failure
● Heart murmur
● Any cause
● Hypertension
● Including risk factors
● Palpitations
● Bradycardia
● Narrow complex tachycardia
● Atrial fibrillation and flutter
● Broad complex tachycardia
● Pacemakers
● Peripheral arterial disease
● Aneurysms, ischaemic limb and occlusions
● Peripheral oedema, breathlessness
● Rheumatic fever
● Mitral valve disease
● Aortic valve disease
● Right heart valve disease
● Indications for cardiac surgery
● Infective endocarditis
● Diseases of heart muscle including myocarditis
● Pericardial disease
● Dyspnoea in heart failure
● Peripheral venous problems
● VTE/ DVT including risk factors and varicose veins