This outstanding resource gives you everything you need to understand, apply, and interpret auscultation. From its history to the most current modalities, the NEW 4th edition presents a comprehensive examination of the possibilities and potential limitations of todays methods. A special audio feature, now available on either CD or cassette, lets you listen in on heart and lung sounds described in the text.
History of Auscultation · The Modern Stethoscope · The Cardiac Cycle · Phonocardiology, External Pulse Recordings, and Echocardiography · Areas of Auscultation · A Technique for Cardiac Auscultation · The First Heart Sound (S1) · The Second Heart Sound (S2) · The Third and Fourth Heart Sounds · Snaps, Rubs, Knocks, and Plops · Ejection Sounds and Systolic Clicks · Heart Murmurs in General · NEW! Innocent Systolic Murmurs · NEW! Systolic Ejection Murmurs · Systolic Regurgitant Murmurs · Diastolic Murmurs · Continuous Murmurs (Machinery Murmurs) · Prosthetic Heart Valve Sounds and Murmurs · Pacemaker and Catheter Sounds and Murmurs · Aids to Cardiac Auscultation: Physiological and Pharmacological · Lung Sounds and Physical Examination in Modern Medicine · NEW! Stethoscopes: A Source of Hospital-Acquired Infections
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