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Diagnosis

Auscultation Skills: Breath and Heart Sounds, Fifth Edition

Jessica S. Coviello, DNP, APRN, ANP-BC

978-1-4511-8999-5 • November 2013 • Softbound • 6” x 9” • 256 pp. • 207 Illus.

Practitioners and students: see and hear breath and heart sounds with

remarkable clarity while perfecting your auscultation technique.

Auscultation Skills: Breath and Heart Sounds, Fifth 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 linked to online audio cues, 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.

This compact, practical book will improve your ability to auscultate

for heart and breath sounds, and enhance your understanding of their

physiology. Throughout, the book references corresponding tracks

on the accompanying website, enabling users to listen to the sounds

immediately after reading about the anatomical and physiologic

changes associated with the sounds.

With full coverage of heart and breath sounds from the simple to

the complex this comprehensive text explains heart and breath

sound fundamentals including basic anatomy and physiology, best

auscultation locations, tips on how to identify each sound, and what

to document during a physical examination.

Auscultation Skills:

BreathandHeart Sounds, Fifth Edition

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.

Features

• Brilliant, full-color illustrations detailing basic anatomy and

physiology, pathophysiology, and the best auscultation sites for

breath and heart sounds.

• Includes nearly 100 tracks of normal and abnormal breath and heart

sounds.

• 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.

Table of Contents

ONE

Heart sound fundamentals

Ch. 1: The heart and auscultation

Ch. 2: Heart sound dynamics

TWO

Normal heart sounds

Ch. 3: The first heart sound

Ch. 4: The second heart sound

Ch. 5: The third and fourth heart sounds

THREE

Abnormal heart sounds

Ch. 6: Other diastolic and systolic sounds

Ch. 7: Murmur fundamentals

Ch. 8: Systolic murmurs

Ch. 9: Diastolic murmurs

Ch. 10: Continuous murmurs

Ch. 11: Other auscultatory sounds

FOUR

Breath sound fundamentals

Ch. 12: The respiratory system and

auscultation

Ch. 13: Introduction to breath sounds

FIVE

Normal breath sounds

Ch. 14: Breath sounds heard in healthy

individuals

SIX

Abnormal breath sounds

Ch. 15: Bronchial breath sounds

Ch. 16: Abnormal voice sounds

Ch. 17: Absent and diminished breath

sounds

SEVEN

Other abnormal breath

sounds

Ch. 18: Classifying adventitious sounds

Ch. 19: Adventitious sounds: crackles

Ch. 20: Adventitious sounds: wheezes

Appendix:

Auscultation findings for common disorder

Assessment flowcharts for common

auscultation findings