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UNDERSTANDING PEDIATRIC HEART SOUNDS - TEXT & CD PACKAGE
Understanding Pediatric Heart Sounds - Text & CD Package
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Second Edition

By
Steven Lehrer, MD, Associate Professor, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, City University of New York, New York, NY

Description
This unique book/CD package includes all the information needed to become proficient at pediatric cardiac auscultation – including an overview of cardiac anatomy and physiology, principles of cardiac auscultation, the pediatric cardiac exam, and explanations of normal and abnormal heart sounds, with sound tracings and anatomic illustrations. The audio CD features normal and abnormal heart sounds with descriptive narration that identifies differences and important observations.

Audience
Practicing pediatric nurses and nurse practitioners, nursing students in pediatric assessment, med-surg, or critical care courses

Contents
Contents – Book
1. The Heart as a Pump
2. Sound, Hearing, and the Stethoscope
3. History and Physical Examination of the Child with Heart Disease
4. Phonocardiagraphy and the Recording of External Pulses
5. Auscultation Areas
6. The First Heart Sound (S1)
7. The Second Heart Sound (S2)
8. The Third and Fourth Heart Sounds (S3 and S4)
9. Other Systolic and Diastolic Sounds
10. General Characteristics of Murmurs
11. Systolic Murmurs
12. Diastolic Murmurs
13. Continuous Murmurs
14. Surgically Created Shunts and Prosthetic Valves
15. Complex Anomalies
Glossary

Contents – Audio CD
1. Introduction
2. First and second heart sounds, S1 and S2
3. Third heart sound, S3
4. Fourth heart sound, S4
5. Quadruple rhythm
6. Summation gallop
7. Systolic ejection sound
8. Midsystolic click
9. Still's murmur
10. Murmur of mitral regurgitation
11. Murmur of tricuspid regurgitation
12. Murmur of aortic stenosis
13. Murmur of pulmonic stenosis
14. Murmur of aortic regurgitation
15. Murmur of patient ductus arteriosus
16. Cervical venous hum
17. Murmur of a Blalock-Taussig shunt
18. Murmur of a ventricular septal defect
19. Murmur of atrial septal defect
20. Late systolic whoop
21. Pericardial friction rub

Bibliographic details
CD-ROM, 256 pages, publication date: OCT-2002
ISBN-13: 978-0-7216-9646-1
ISBN-10: 0-7216-9646-5
Imprint: SAUNDERS


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Last update: 10 Sep 2009
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