Understanding Lung Sounds with Audio CD - Softcover

Lehrer MD, Steven

 
9781416068389: Understanding Lung Sounds with Audio CD

Synopsis

A practical and easy-to-use book and audio CD package, Understanding Lung Sounds, Third Edition, guides you through the sounds and skills of lung auscultation. The 60-minute audio CD presents actual lung sounds―teaching you, step-by-step, how to interpret, differentiate, and identify both normal and abnormal lung sounds. Succinct and thorough, the book expands on the content in the CD with visual reinforcement to help you better understand what you hear.

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About the Author

Steven Lehrer, MD is Associate Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Attending Physician, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York

From the Back Cover

The sections on lung sounds are on the whole well done and include a lot of up-to-date information...A chapter on history taking and physical examination of the chest precedes the chapters on lung sounds and helps place them in context...A strong feature of this book is the illustrations. They have been well chosen and come from a variety of sources. They illustrate many aspects of the subject in helpful and relevant fashion..The lung sounds on the accompanying tape are of good quality. The foreword by Dr. McKusick is correct....in emphasizing the importance of understanding lung sounds. Developments in the field are now accelerating, and much of the recent work on the subject has been brought together here.

New England Journal of Medicine

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The sections on lung sounds are on the whole well done and include a lot of up-to-date information...A strong feature of this book is the illustrations. They have been well chosen and come from a variety of sources. They illustrate many aspects of the subject in helpful and relevant fashion...The lung sounds on the accompanying tape are of good quality... New England Journal of Medicine

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