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"This is an excellent combination of book and CD-Rom which covers the difficult to teach topic of cardiac auscultation. The recordings allow students to listen to real recordings of heart sounds in combination with the text and mini-tutorials on the CD. The CD is easy to use and the animated diagrams of the cardiac cycle are very clear."
"BMA Book Awards 2009 - judges comments"
"BMA Book Awards 2009 - judges comments"
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This title is - British Medical Association Book Awards 2009 - Student Textbook Award Winner. Cardiac auscultation is one of the most difficult clinical skills to acquire and competence in this area is extremely variable. This short and accessible book comes with an interactive CD of heart sounds recorded from actual patients using the latest digital audio technology. It allows the user to listen to a recording and either eliminate or enhance the different components until they are confident that they have correctly identified the sounds in all phases of the cardiac cycle. This is particularly important for the recognition of diastolic sounds which are the most difficult to appreciate. There is no better way to confirm the presence of such a murmur than to have the facility to reduce or increase its intensity. This second edition uses the latest software and includes new features, such as the ability to slow the heart sounds down without altering their pitch. The layout of the CD has been improved to make it quicker to access. New questions and answers in both the book and the CD allow readers to monitor their knowledge and progress. The visual representation of the cardiac cycle also helps readers understand the origin of the heart sounds. This CD is suitable for use in all PC/Macs which have a tray-loading CD-ROM drive. It is not compatible with slot-loading CD-ROM drives.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Excellent book. Very portable for trains etc and the cd is awesome. Having managed a chunk of med school avoiding murmurs at all costs, this is helping me start to tackle them and theyre not as scary as I thought. Breaks it down really well. I'd buy again.
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This book is an excellent resource for anyone studying heart conditions and auscultation. The DVD is particularly useful and the way the seperate features of the heart sounds can be isolated help the learner to identify different features of abnormal heart sounds.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Important for Primary Care-- but mini-CD
3 July 2011
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This is a great book and MINI-cd combination for brushing up on heart assessments. As Dr. Sanders (Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis) points out, recent primary care practitioners have tended to rely more heavily on diagnostic tests, such as the echocardiogram, than on their own assessment skills. The problem with that approach is it results in misdiagnoses. One example she gives is a that of a middle age women who is diagnosed with asthma, when in fact the rheumatic fever she had as a child resulted in progressive valve deterioration. If the primary care practitioner had appreciated the murmur, her illness would have been correctly diagnosed months before the patient was hospitalized.
Dr. Sanders reports that studies show that practitioners who listen over and over to heart sounds learn to differentiate normal from pathologic sounds, and make the correct diagnosis. This product allows you to do just that. Better, it allows you to fiddle with the volumes of different parts of the heart rhythm when listening to the sounds, helping you to appreciate their subtleties and timing. The book also includes information about the 12-lead EKG, echocardiogram, and chest x-ray results which go along with the auscultation findings for different pathologies.
My only caveat, and the reason this gets 4 stars rather than 5, is the MINI as opposed to the full-sized CD. I advise you to make sure you have, or a friend has, a computer with a "front-tray" drive before you get it. I used such a computer to burn a full-sized copy so I could execute the software and listen to the heart sounds on a mac with only a slot DVD/CD drive.
One last thing-- the files on this are MP3 files, so you cannot just slide a copy of the CD into your car's CD player, unless it plays MP3s. I'm not sure how helpful that would be without the included software, anyway, since you need other information to identify the murmurs.
Dr. Sanders reports that studies show that practitioners who listen over and over to heart sounds learn to differentiate normal from pathologic sounds, and make the correct diagnosis. This product allows you to do just that. Better, it allows you to fiddle with the volumes of different parts of the heart rhythm when listening to the sounds, helping you to appreciate their subtleties and timing. The book also includes information about the 12-lead EKG, echocardiogram, and chest x-ray results which go along with the auscultation findings for different pathologies.
My only caveat, and the reason this gets 4 stars rather than 5, is the MINI as opposed to the full-sized CD. I advise you to make sure you have, or a friend has, a computer with a "front-tray" drive before you get it. I used such a computer to burn a full-sized copy so I could execute the software and listen to the heart sounds on a mac with only a slot DVD/CD drive.
One last thing-- the files on this are MP3 files, so you cannot just slide a copy of the CD into your car's CD player, unless it plays MP3s. I'm not sure how helpful that would be without the included software, anyway, since you need other information to identify the murmurs.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
GREAT STUFF!
8 Feb 2011
This book was really helpful for heart sounds...especially the CD that came with it. The tutorials really help you understand it and not just memorize the sound! Must have book for heart sounds!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Excellent book!
17 Aug 2009
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Great book on heart murmurs. Quick shipping. Has a DVD with it that makes it the best murmur book to own.
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