Evaluating Heart And Breath Sounds

Written in paragraph and bullet format, this volume offers how-to guidance on the latest techniques for evaluating heart and breath sounds and features numerous illustrations and flow charts.

Pulmonary anatomy and physiology -- Cardiac anatomy and physiology -- Fundamentals of sound -- Bedside patient assessment -- The stethoscope -- Lung sounds -- Heart sounds -- Case studies -- Glossary of key terms -- Answer key for review questions -- Appendix -- Index.

A popular title in its Second Edition includes breath and heart sound physiology, more than 200 illustrations highlighting anatomy, pertinent heart and lung areas, and optimum auscultation sites. Features include auscultation tips and alerts, a chart of auscultation findings for common disorders, phonocardiogram and ECG tracings, glossary, and pretests and posttests for each topic section. The audio CD is PC and MAC compatible, and features electronically generated examples of more than 40 different breath sounds and over 50 different heart sounds. An audio index cues to sounds sequentially with the text or out of sequence.

Helping you develop skills in the accurate assessment of a patient's heart and lungs, Lung and Heart Sounds Online shows how to identify abnormalities in order to provide positive patient outcomes. Online modules include over 50 lung and heart sounds using narrated animations and audio to enhance your understanding of the skill of chest auscultation. Case studies allow you to test your diagnostic skills and apply auscultation to patient assessment in a safe online environment. Developed from content written by the late Robert L. Wilkins, John Hodgkin, M.D., and Brad Lopez, Lung and Heart Sounds Online lets you hear the most common normal and abnormal lung and heart sounds that you might encounter in practice.

A guide to the techniques and analysis of clinical data. Each of the seventeen sections begins with a drawing and biographical sketch of a seminal contributor to the discipline. After an introduction and historical survey of clinical methods, the next fifteen sections are organized by body system. Each contains clinical data items from the history, physical examination, and laboratory investigations that are generally included in a comprehensive patient evaluation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This volume of the new Nursing Know-How series offers how-to guidance on the latest techniques for evaluating over 250 important signs and symptoms. Each sign or symptom is presented on a page or two-page spread in bulleted format. Numerous illustrations and flow charts complement the text. Know-How Nugget icons offer expert tips for eliciting or assessing a sign or symptom. Case Clip icons present real-life responses to an urgent sign or symptom—the nurse's assessment findings and the rapid response team's interventions. Quick Action! icons present urgent responses to an alarming sign or symptom and interventions for avoiding a life-threatening emergency.

A practical and easy-to-use book with separately available 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, this companion book expands on the content in the CD with visual reinforcement to help you better understand what you hear.

This popular book-and-audio-CD product offers nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants a solid basis for recognizing and differentiating among abnormal breath and heart sounds. The full-color text with over 200 illustrations offers comprehensive coverage of simple and complex breath and heart sounds and explains fundamentals including anatomy, physiology, best auscultation locations, tips for identifying each sound, and documentation pointers. The all-in-one CD features 46 tracks of breath sounds and 50 tracks of heart sounds, all enhanced for clarity, which can be listened to seq.