All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

By definition, continuous murmur is one which starts in systole and continues through the second heart sound into diastole. It need not be present throughout the cardiac cycle.

Auscultatory gap is the absence of Korotkoff sounds while recording blood pressure for a short period. If the cuff pressure is not raised well above the palpatory blood

Anyone working in the emergency department or intensive care unit would have experienced difficulty in deciding whether a given wide QRS tachycardia is of supraventricular or ventricular origin.