VIDEO: Cardiac exam tips for PCPs

In this video, Byron Williams III, MD, an associate professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, discusses cardiac oscillation in the primary care setting, as well as findings that may require referrals to a cardiologist.

His review is part of a larger discussion that will take place during Emory University’s Cardiology in Primary Care Conference, which is being held in Atlanta on Oct. 13-15.

“What we’re trying to do is identify a few specific findings that providers may identify on cardiac oscillation that certainly require further evaluation [and] may represent a more concerning, underlying cardiac finding,” Williams said.

These findings, he said, may include abnormal cardiac sounds and murmurs, such as the fixed splitting of the second heart sound, the murmur of mitral valve prolapses and the ejection sound of a bicuspid aortic valve.