Understanding Heart Sounds and Murmurs: With An Introduction to Lung Sounds (Book with Audio CD-ROM)

Name: Understanding Heart Sounds and Murmurs: With An Introduction to Lung Sounds (Book with Audio CD-ROM)
Brand: Saunders
SKU: 9780721676432
Rating: 4.2 (12 reviews)
ISBN: 9780721676432

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ISBN-10:

072167643X

ISBN-13:

9780721676432

Author(s): Tilkian MD FACC, Ara G.; Conover RN BSN, Mary Boudreau

Edition: 4

Released: Jan 15, 2001

Publisher: Saunders

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages

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Now in a new edition, this popular reference provides the perfect way to enhance your skills in recognizing normal and abnormal heart and lung sounds. It shows you where to listen for a particular sound, how to recognize an abnormality, and how to interpret what you have heard. You will be able to translate clicks, snaps, crackles, and knocks-into an accurate assessment.

Features "Where to Listen" notes to tell you where heart sounds are best heard on the human body

Includes a glossary of key terms and conditions for fast, accurate referencing

Contains over 135 illustrations to help illustrate clarify key concepts

Offers two different forms of packaging-book with CD or book with audio cassette

Presents a brief outline of key points with corresponding page numbers to open each chapter

Features a new chapter titled "Stethoscopes: A Source of Hospital- Acquired Infections" which discusses nosocomial infections and the growing concern regarding this topic

Features two additional chapters: "Innocent Systolic Murmurs" and "Systolic Ejection Murmurs"

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