Use the acronyms PASS and PAID to remember important murmurs:
Pulmonic and Aortic Stenosis yield Systolic murmurs (PASS); and Pulmonic and Aortic Insufficiency yield Diastolic murmurs (PAID). — WANDA SANTOS, PA, Paris, Ill. (198-3)
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