Heart Sounds Made Easy: (with CD-ROM)

By Elspeth M. Brown, Anthony P. Salmon, Terence Leung, et al.

Book Overview

A practical and simple guide to the art of cardiac auscultation and which teaches the reader how to identify a pathological heart murmur. The book explains what heart sounds are and how to use a stethoscope. It covers all the standard adult and child murmurs and is organised by region. It includes all the text of the tutorials. The CD provides in a series of tutorials the chance to listen to and identify the range of heart sounds; while in the pathology section a listener can focus down on each individual component of the sound allowing them to discern the key features of each murmur.The CD employs some unique technology allowing the various components of each heart sound to be eliminated and restored to aid understandingThe CD teaches something in minutes that can take years to learn in clinical practice aloneThe book provides a simple guide to the subject to be used in conjunction with the CDExcellent value for moneySimple to use

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0443071411
• ISBN13: 9780443071416
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 0.3" x 5.3"