Auscultation Skills: Breath & Heart Sounds

By Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Jaime Buss

Book Overview

Auscultation Skills: Breath and Heart Sounds, Fourth Edition is the only book-and-audio-CD product on the market that offers full coverage of heart and breath sounds from the simple to the complex and provides a comprehensive text explaining heart and breath sound fundamentals including basic anatomy and physiology, best auscultation locations, tips on how to identify each sound, and what to document. This product offers practicing nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants a solid basis for recognizing and differentiating among abnormal breath and heart sounds to help them accurately interpret what they hear and then apply that knowledge toward a proper diagnosis and treatment regimen. The book is supplemented with an all-in-one CD that features 46 tracks of breath sounds and 50 tracks of heart sounds, which can be listened to sequentially with the book or reviewed in any order the reader chooses. The CD can be listened to in the car or on the computer; it can be downloaded to the computer and converted to MP3 files. Tips and alerts abound throughout the book to help manage optimal care. A glossary of commonly used terms and abbreviations and an easy-to-read chart of common disorders matched with their specific abnormal breath and heart sounds add to the book's utility.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1605474541
• ISBN13: 9781605474540
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Ausc. skills

This book comes with CDs and is very informative and clear, use CDs while driving and I love it. It is great for the new NP/MD/PA and for those who need to review their skills.

Great for students and nurses alike.

I bought this as a nursing student, 5 years ago, and never wrote a review for it. I love this product. In nursing school we are taught what different lung and heart sounds should sound like. However, reading what something sounds like and actually hearing it make all the difference. This CD breaks down different sounds nursing students and nurses should be familiar with. It's a good refresher for a nurse who hasn't had a patient with rales or hasn't heard a gallop in a while. I'd recommend this to nursing instructors, students, and nurses.