Title: Understanding Heart Sounds and Murmurs: With An Introduction to Lung Sounds (Book with Audio CD-ROM)
Publisher: Saunders
Publication Date: 2001
Language: English
ISBN 10: 072167643X
ISBN 13: 9780721676432
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 4th Edition
Condition: Good

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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"

About the Author

Ara G. Tilkian, MD, FACC, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, Director of Cardiology, Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, Mission Hills, CA; Mary Boudreau Conover, RN, BSNEd, Director of Education, Critical Care Conferences, Santa Cruz, CA

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