Reporting

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Script: Timing, Location, shape(character), intensity, associated features [pitch, characteristic (harsh, blowing, rumbling), radiation]

“This patient has a harsh / soft / blowingGrade …,  systolic / diastolic murmur, heard loudest in the aortic / mitral / tricuspid / pulmonary area, that does not / radiates to the carotids / left axilla. It is high / low pitched and has a crescendo / decrescendo / crescendo-decrescendo shape. This is suggestive of a diagnosis of mitral stenosis / aortic stenosis.”

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SCRIPT

Maneuvers

DDx Summary

Systolic, Diastolic, Continuous

SEM = mid-systolic, crescendo-decrescendo

| RUSB (SEM) | LUSB Flow Murmur (SEM); (SEM); , (SEM); **AVSD** (SEM);

(louder in S, machinary) | | | --- | --- | --- | | | LLSB (Holo); (Holo, lean forward); Still’s (SEM)

AR (early) | Apex MR (Holo)

MS (mid-late) |

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