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Practitioners and students: see and hear breath and heart sounds with remarkable clarity while perfecting your auscultation technique.
Auscultation Skills: Breath and Heart Sounds, Fifth Edition, pinpoints exactly how, where, and why breath and heart sounds occur and helps you to differentiate normal from abnormal sounds quickly and accurately. Loaded with clear explanations, colorful illustrations, and linked to online audio cues, this sensational reference spans the simple to the complex and serves as an excellent tool for beginning practitioners and seasoned clinicians who are looking to hone their diagnostic skills and improve their auscultation technique.
This compact, practical book will improve your ability to auscultate for heart and breath sounds, and enhance your understanding of their physiology. Throughout, the book references corresponding tracks on the accompanying website, enabling users to listen to the sounds immediately after reading about the anatomical and physiologic changes associated with the sounds.
With full coverage of heart and breath sounds from the simple to the complex this comprehensive text explains heart and breath sound fundamentals including basic anatomy and physiology, best auscultation locations, tips on how to identify each sound, and what to document during a physical examination. Auscultation Skills: Breath and Heart Sounds, Fifth Edition offers practicing nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants a solid basis for recognizing and differentiating among abnormal breath and heart sounds to help them accurately interpret what they hear and then apply that knowledge toward a proper diagnosis and treatment regimen.
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Practitioners and students: see and hear breath and heart sounds with remarkable clarity while perfecting your auscultation technique.
Auscultation Skills: Breath & Heart Sounds, Fifth Edition, pinpoints exactly how, where, and why breath and heart sounds occur and helps you to differentiate normal from abnormal sounds quickly and accurately. Loaded with clear explanations, colorful illustrations, and linked to online audio cues, this sensational reference spans the simple to the complex and serves as an excellent tool for beginning practitioners and seasoned clinicians who are looking to hone their diagnostic skills and improve their auscultation technique.
This compact, practical book will improve your ability to auscultate for heart and breath sounds, and enhance your understanding of their physiology. Throughout, the book references corresponding tracks on the accompanying website, enabling users to listen to the sounds immediately after reading about the anatomical and physiologic changes associated with the sounds.
With full coverage of heart and breath sounds from the simple to the complex this comprehensive text explains heart and breath sound fundamentals including basic anatomy and physiology, best auscultation locations, tips on how to identify each sound, and what to document during a physical examination. Auscultation Skills: Breath & Heart Sounds, Fifth Edition offers practicing nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants a solid basis for recognizing and differentiating among abnormal breath and heart sounds to help them accurately interpret what they hear and then apply that knowledge toward a proper diagnosis and treatment regimen.
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This popular book-and-audio-CD product offers nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants a solid basis for recognizing and differentiating among abnormal breath and heart sounds. The full-color text with over 200 illustrations offers comprehensive coverage of simple and complex breath and heart sounds and explains fundamentals including anatomy, physiology, best auscultation locations, tips for identifying each sound, and documentation pointers.
The all-in-one CD features 46 tracks of breath sounds and 50 tracks of heart sounds, all enhanced for clarity, which can be listened to sequentially with the book or reviewed in any order the reader chooses. The CD can be listened to in the car or on the computer; it can be downloaded to the computer and converted to MP3 files.
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Auscultation Skills: Breath and Heart Sounds, Fourth Edition is the only book-and-audio-CD product on the market that offers full coverage of heart and breath sounds from the simple to the complex and provides a comprehensive text explaining heart and breath sound fundamentals including basic anatomy and physiology, best auscultation locations, tips on how to identify each sound, and what to document. This product offers practicing nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants a solid basis for recognizing and differentiating among abnormal breath and heart sounds to help them accurately interpret what they hear and then apply that knowledge toward a proper diagnosis and treatment regimen.
The book is supplemented with an all-in-one CD that features 46 tracks of breath sounds and 50 tracks of heart sounds, which can be listened to sequentially with the book or reviewed in any order the reader chooses. The CD can be listened to in the car or on the computer; it can be downloaded to the computer and converted to MP3 files.
Tips and alerts abound throughout the book to help manage optimal care. A glossary of commonly used terms and abbreviations and an easy-to-read chart of common disorders matched with their specific abnormal breath and heart sounds add to the book's utility.
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Table of Contents
ONE Heart sound fundamentals
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1 THE HEART AND AUSCULTATION
Pretest, Anatomy and physiology, Traditional auscultatory areas, Alternative auscultatory areas, Auscultatory techniques, Enhancement techniques, Posttest
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2 HEART SOUND DYNAMICS
Pretest, Heart sound origins, Basic heart sounds, Depolarization and repolarization, Documenting heart sounds, Posttest
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TWO Normal heart sounds
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3 THE FIRST HEART SOUND
Pretest, Normal S1, Abnormal S1 split, Posttest
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4 THE SECOND HEART SOUND
Pretest, Normal S2, S2 split sounds, Posttest
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5 THE THIRD AND FOURTH HEART SOUNDS
Pretest, Ventricular filling sounds, Third heart sound, Fourth heart sound, S3 and S4: Similarities and differences, Posttest
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THREE Abnormal heart sounds
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6 OTHER DIASTOLIC AND SYSTOLIC SOUNDS
Pretest, Opening snaps, Systolic ejection sounds, Posttest
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7 MURMUR FUNDAMENTALS
Pretest, Turbulent blood flow, Characteristics, Posttest
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8 SYSTOLIC MURMURS
Pretest, Anatomy and physiology, Systolic ejection murmurs, Ventricular outflow obstruction murmurs, Systolic regurgitation murmurs, Ventricular septal defect murmur, Posttest
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9 DIASTOLIC MURMURS
Pretest, Anatomy and physiology, Aortic regurgitation murmurs, Pulmonic regurgitation murmurs, Other diastolic murmurs, Posttest
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10 CONTINUOUS MURMURS
Pretest, Two causes, Cervical venous hum murmurs, Patent ductus arteriosus murmurs, Posttest
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11 OTHER AUSCULTATORY SOUNDS
Pretest, Prosthetic valve sounds and murmurs, Aortic prosthetic valves, Mitral prosthetic valves, Pericardial friction rubs, Mediastinal crunch, Posttest
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FOUR Breath sound fundamentals
12 THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM AND AUSCULTATION
Pretest, Anatomy and physiology, The mechanics of breathing, Auscultatory areas, Auscultatory techniques, Posttest
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13 INTRODUCTION TO BREATH SOUNDS
Pretest, Breath sound production, Terminology, Documenting auscultation findings, Posttest
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FIVE Normal breath sounds
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14 BREATH SOUNDS HEARD IN HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS
Pretest, Anatomy and physiology, Posttest
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SIX Abnormal breath sounds
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15 BRONCHIAL BREATH SOUNDS
Pretest, Sound production, Posttest
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16 ABNORMAL VOICE SOUNDS
Pretest, Sound production, Posttest
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17 ABSENT AND DIMINISHED BREATH SOUNDS
Pretest, Sound production, Posttest
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SEVEN Other abnormal breath sounds
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18 CLASSIFYING ADVENTITIOUS SOUNDS
Pretest, Confusion over terminology, Current classification system, Posttest
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19 ADVENTITIOUS SOUNDS: CRACKLES
Pretest, Sound production, Documentation, Late inspiratory crackles, Early inspiratory and expiratory crackles, Pleural crackles, Posttest
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20 ADVENTITIOUS SOUNDS: WHEEZES
Pretest, Sound production, Expiratory polyphonic wheezes, Fixed monophonic wheezes, Sequential inspiratory wheezes, Random monophonic wheezes, Stridor, Posttest
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Auscultation findings for common disorders
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Assessment flowcharts for common auscultation findings
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English-Spanish phrases used in cardiac and respiratory assessment
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Posttest answers
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Selected readings
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Glossary
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Index