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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.
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.
Table of Contents
ONE Heart sound fundamentals
1 THE HEART AND AUSCULTATION
Pretest, Anatomy and physiology, Traditional auscultatory areas, Alternative auscultatory areas, Auscultatory techniques, Enhancement techniques, Posttest
2 HEART SOUND DYNAMICS
Pretest, Heart sound origins, Basic heart sounds, Depolarization and repolarization, Documenting heart sounds, Posttest
TWO Normal heart sounds
3 THE FIRST HEART SOUND
Pretest, Normal S1, Abnormal S1 split, Posttest
4 THE SECOND HEART SOUND
Pretest, Normal S2, S2 split sounds, Posttest
5 THE THIRD AND FOURTH HEART SOUNDS
Pretest, Ventricular filling sounds, Third heart sound, Fourth heart sound, S3 and S4: Similarities and differences, Posttest
THREE Abnormal heart sounds
6 OTHER DIASTOLIC AND SYSTOLIC SOUNDS
Pretest, Opening snaps, Systolic ejection sounds, Posttest
7 MURMUR FUNDAMENTALS
Pretest, Turbulent blood flow, Characteristics, Posttest
8 SYSTOLIC MURMURS
Pretest, Anatomy and physiology, Systolic ejection murmurs, Ventricular outflow obstruction murmurs, Systolic regurgitation murmurs, Ventricular septal defect murmur, Posttest
9 DIASTOLIC MURMURS
Pretest, Anatomy and physiology, Aortic regurgitation murmurs, Pulmonic regurgitation murmurs, Other diastolic murmurs, Posttest
10 CONTINUOUS MURMURS
Pretest, Two causes, Cervical venous hum murmurs, Patent ductus arteriosus murmurs, Posttest
11 OTHER AUSCULTATORY SOUNDS
Pretest, Prosthetic valve sounds and murmurs, Aortic prosthetic valves, Mitral prosthetic valves, Pericardial friction rubs, Mediastinal crunch, Posttest
FOUR Breath sound fundamentals
12 THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM AND AUSCULTATION
Pretest, Anatomy and physiology, The mechanics of breathing, Auscultatory areas, Auscultatory techniques, Posttest
13 INTRODUCTION TO BREATH SOUNDS
Pretest, Breath sound production, Terminology, Documenting auscultation findings, Posttest
FIVE Normal breath sounds
14 BREATH SOUNDS HEARD IN HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS
Pretest, Anatomy and physiology, Posttest
SIX Abnormal breath sounds
15 BRONCHIAL BREATH SOUNDS
Pretest, Sound production, Posttest
16 ABNORMAL VOICE SOUNDS
Pretest, Sound production, Posttest
17 ABSENT AND DIMINISHED BREATH SOUNDS
Pretest, Sound production, Posttest
SEVEN Other abnormal breath sounds
18 CLASSIFYING ADVENTITIOUS SOUNDS
Pretest, Confusion over terminology, Current classification system, Posttest
19 ADVENTITIOUS SOUNDS: CRACKLES
Pretest, Sound production, Documentation, Late inspiratory crackles, Early inspiratory and expiratory crackles, Pleural crackles, Posttest
20 ADVENTITIOUS SOUNDS: WHEEZES
Pretest, Sound production, Expiratory polyphonic wheezes, Fixed monophonic wheezes, Sequential inspiratory wheezes, Random monophonic wheezes, Stridor, Posttest
Auscultation findings for common disorders
Assessment flowcharts for common auscultation findings
English-Spanish phrases used in cardiac and respiratory assessment
Posttest answers
Selected readings
Glossary
Index