Synopsis

Lets you see and hear breath and heart sounds with remarkable clarity while perfecting your auscultation technique.

Auscultation Skills: Breath & Heart Sounds, Fourth 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 audio cues linked to the accompanying CD, 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.

Key Features:

Brilliant, full color illustrations detailing basic anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, and the best auscultation sites for breath and heart sounds.

Multiformat audio CD with nearly 100 tracks of normal and abnormal breath and heart sounds - operates on MACs, PCs, and CD players and can even be converted for MP3

Pretests and Posttests in every chapter to challenge your understanding and test your ability to discern auscultation sounds

Rapid-review assessment flowcharts for the most common auscultation findings

Helpful logos drawing attention to Age issues, Auscultation tips, and Alerts

Phonocardiogram and ECG tracings depicting normal and abnormal sounds

Glossary, English-Spanish translation of cardiac and respiratory phrases and terms, and Auscultation findings for common disorders

Handy bookmark numerically listing all audio cues found throughout the text

And more. . .

Reviewer: Rosanne R. Griggs, BSN, MS, PhD, FNP-Bc(Purdue University School of Nursing)
Description: This compact book is packed with explanations of the causes of a wide variety of different cardiac and pulmonary auscultatory findings. Throughout, it references corresponding tracks on the accompanying CD, enabling users to listen to the sounds immediately after reading about the anatomical and physiologic changes associated with the sounds.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide "a practical tool to improve your ability to auscultate for these sounds and enhance your understanding of their physiology." The book combines text, illustrations, and sounds to meet these objectives.
Audience: The book is most appropriate for nurse practitioner or physician assistant students, medical residents, or any healthcare clinicians wishing to improve their cardiac and pulmonary auscultation expertise.
Features: The accompanying CD is the most valuable feature. Also helpful are pretest and post-test questions for each section, English-Spanish phrases used in cardiac and respiratory assessment, and the glossary of terms.
Assessment: As an auditory learner, I know this book would have been helpful when I studied health assessment, and that it will help me improve my cardiac and pulmonary assessment skills. Replacing the cassette tape that came with the previous version with a CD enables users to readily locate specific sounds. The illustrations in this edition are much improved, in color and detail, as well.

Biography

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