Auscultation Skills - Breath and Heart Sounds (Paperback)

This unique learning package offers clear, annotated breath and heart sounds. A handy index with cues simplifies sound identification, and a full-length book includes abundant illustrations and physiology. Also included are a complete glossary of terms and abbreviations, thorough self-tests, and helpful tips and alerts. Book contents include foreword, breath sound components, normal breath sounds, abnormal breath sounds, adventitious sounds, heart sound fundamentals, normal heart sounds, abnormal heart sounds, other auscultatory sounds, index. Audiotape content covers more than 40 breath sounds, including bronchophony, ego-bronchophony, whispered pectoriloquy, diminished breath sounds, crackles, and wheezes. Includes more than 50 heart sounds including S(1), S(2), S(3), S(4), pericardial friction rub, summation gallop, clicks, murmurs, and more.