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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