Heartsounds

Heartsounds
Author: Martha Weinman Lear
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2014-09-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1497648378

The national bestseller and undying testament of a wife’s love for her husband as he embarks on the fight of his life. On a story assignment in France for the New York Times Magazine, Martha Weinman Lear has just escaped tourist-infested Cannes for a quiet pension in the hills behind the Riviera when she gets the call from New York. Her husband has suffered a massive heart attack and is in the hospital. Harold Lear, a fifty-three-year-old urologist and leader in the field of human sexuality research, suddenly finds himself in the helpless role of the patient. Ripping into the Lears’ lives and marriage, Hal’s coronary disease sends them on a journey through New York City’s medical maze. With bittersweet poignancy, Lear chronicles her husband’s valiant efforts to combat his sickness as more heart attacks and devastating postsurgical complications befall him. A stunning work of medical drama and journalism, Heartsounds is above all the gripping story of a passionate, enduring love.

Heart Sounds Made Incredibly Easy

Heart Sounds Made Incredibly Easy
Author:
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2005
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781582553580

Heart Sounds Made Incredibly Easy! is an entertaining, easy-to-read, practical, and informative reference that includes an audio CD of heart sounds for those who must accurately interpret heart sounds and understand their implications, diagnosis, and treatments. Revealing the importance of accurate heart sound interpretation, this Incredibly Easy! title walks the reader through more than 65 heart sounds. The book includes an audio index and cues to the CD throughout the text for each sound, which allows the reader to listen to the sounds sequentially with the book or review them out of sequence.

Heart Sounds

Heart Sounds
Author: Christopher Hanifin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2010-06-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781452840055

Are you mystified by murmurs? Puzzled by pitch? Stymied by splitting? If so, this is the book for you. Cardiac auscultation can be a frustrating skill to learn, and many physical examination texts address cardiac auscultation in a cursory fashion. The wide variety of heart sounds available on CD and the internet may serve more to confuse than to clarify. The philosophy of this book is that understanding is a much more powerful tool than memorization in arriving at a differential diagnosis. This book takes the form of a programmed text. Each page presents a simple concept or two related to anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology or even physics. Applying this knowledge - knowledge you already possess - provides a solid foundation for arriving at a diagnosis in many cases.

Learning Cardiac Auscultation

Learning Cardiac Auscultation
Author: Allen J. Taylor
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2015-10-13
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1447167384

The book contains a series of core auscultation “lessons”. All are case based and describe auscultation as it relates to a patient and in terms of the gold standard for interpretation of heart sounds. Auscultation is the term for listening to the internal sounds of the body, usually using a stethoscope. It is performed for the purposes of examining the circulatory system and respiratory system (heart sounds and breath sounds). As a topic it is one of the oldest in cardiology but its utility should never be underestimated. In this era of hugely expensive imaging tests, auscultation is a cornerstone of efficient diagnosis and therefore needs a fresh look. The core content of this book describes the search for diagnostic clues within patients’ heart sounds and as such this book provides superb practical advice in the form of a series of clinical pearls reflecting what accurate diagnosis with auscultation can mean to patient prognosis and outcome. This often subtle but ultimately simple subject often produces complex results and these must be considered in light of modern next-level diagnostic methods and patient management.

Understanding Heart Sounds and Murmurs

Understanding Heart Sounds and Murmurs
Author: Ara G. Tilkian
Publisher: W B Saunders Company
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2001
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780721693248

Accompanying compact disc includes examples of various heart and lung sounds in healthy and diseased states.

Understanding Pediatric Heart Sounds

Understanding Pediatric Heart Sounds
Author: MD Steven Lehrer
Publisher: Steven Lehrer
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2011-12-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1468138030

Teaches how to examine the heart of a child, with a book and internet audio file for download that reproduces heart sounds. Reviews the anatomy and physiology of a child's heart as well as principles of sound, hearing, and the proper use of the stethoscope. Details methods for history taking, performing a physical examination, and auscultating the heart. "The author's clear style makes the book, and at least a good portion of the audiotape, eminently suitable for students, house staff, and practitioners who wish to enhance their listening skills for pediatric cardiovascular examination." New England Journal of Medicine

Auscultation Skills

Auscultation Skills
Author:
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2009-10-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1605474541

This book-and-audio-CD package offers nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants a solid basis for recognizing and differentiating among abnormal breath and heart sounds. Forty-six tracks of breath sounds and 50 heart sounds complement the full-color text.

Cardiology Explained

Cardiology Explained
Author: Euan A. Ashley
Publisher: Remedica
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2004
Genre: Cardiology
ISBN: 1901346226

One of the most time-consuming tasks in clinical medicine is seeking the opinions of specialist colleagues. There is a pressure not only to make referrals appropriate but also to summarize the case in the language of the specialist. This book explains basic physiologic and pathophysiologic mechanisms of cardiovascular disease in a straightforward manner, gives guidelines as to when referral is appropriate, and, uniquely, explains what the specialist is likely to do. It is ideal for any hospital doctor, generalist, or even senior medical student who may need a cardiology opinion, or for that ma.

Rapid Interpretation of Heart and Lung Sounds - E-Book

Rapid Interpretation of Heart and Lung Sounds - E-Book
Author: Bruce W. Keene
Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2014-10-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0323341233

Learn to properly identify, interpret, and differentiate a wide variety of canine and feline heart and lung sounds with Rapid Interpretation of Heart and Lung Sounds: A Guide to Cardiac and Respiratory Auscultation in Dogs and Cats, 3rd Edition. A brand new companion website features both simulated and actual clinical examples to help you master and evaluate common sounds like murmurs and arrhythmias. And with the helpful instructions in the text integrated with the heart and lung sounds, you will be well prepared to perform accurate heart and lung auscultation in dogs and cats. Heart sound simulator allows you to focus on the heart sounds without the distraction of respiratory sounds or artifacts of hair rubbing against the stethoscope. Wide variety of heart and lung sounds provides you with real-life cases that are as close to clinical practice as possible. Pretests may be taken prior to reviewing the book and website to measure how much you already know. Posttests help determine when the material has been mastered and direct the user to remediation in areas where additional study is needed. Inclusion of clinically-relevant conditions makes it easy for you to apply this information to day-to-day practice. Key points called out within the text alert you to potential problems, variations on techniques, and other treatment considerations. NEW! User-friendly companion website integrated with the text fully prepares you to identify, interpret, and differentiate heart and lung sounds in dogs and cats. EXPANDED! Respiratory content offers actual examples of video and lung sounds on respiratory patterns in animals that are dyspneic from various causes.