Description: Auscultation Skills by Jessica Shank Coviello Helps practitioners and students see and hear breath and heart sounds with remarkable clarity while perfecting their auscultation technique. This title pinpoints exactly how, where, and why breath and heart sounds occur and helps you to differentiate normal from abnormal sounds quickly and accurately. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Practitioners and students: see and hear breath and heart sounds with remarkable clarity while perfecting your auscultation technique. Auscultation Skills: Breath & 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: Breath & Heart 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. Key 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 -Glossary, English-Spanish translation of cardiac and respiratory phrases and terms, and Auscultation findings for common disorders Table of Contents ONE Heart sound fundamentals1 THE HEART AND AUSCULTATIONPretest, Anatomy and physiology, Traditional auscultatory areas, Alternative auscultatory areas, Auscultatory techniques, Enhancement techniques, Posttest2 HEART SOUND DYNAMICSPretest, Heart sound origins, Basic heart sounds, Depolarization and repolarization, Documenting heart sounds, PosttestTWO Normal heart sounds3 THE FIRST HEART SOUNDPretest, Normal S1, Abnormal S1 split, Posttest4 THE SECOND HEART SOUNDPretest, Normal S2, S2 split sounds, Posttest5 THE THIRD AND FOURTH HEART SOUNDSPretest, Ventricular filling sounds, Third heart sound, Fourth heart sound, S3 and S4: Similarities and differences, PosttestTHREE Abnormal heart sounds6 OTHER DIASTOLIC AND SYSTOLIC SOUNDSPretest, Opening snaps, Systolic ejection sounds, Posttest7 MURMUR FUNDAMENTALSPretest, Turbulent blood flow, Characteristics, Posttest8 SYSTOLIC MURMURSPretest, Anatomy and physiology, Systolic ejection murmurs, Ventricular outflow obstruction murmurs, Systolic regurgitation murmurs, Ventricular septal defect murmur, Posttest9 DIASTOLIC MURMURSPretest, Anatomy and physiology, Aortic regurgitation murmurs, Pulmonic regurgitation murmurs, Other diastolic murmurs, Posttest10 CONTINUOUS MURMURSPretest, Two causes, Cervical venous hum murmurs, Patent ductus arteriosus murmurs, Posttest11 OTHER AUSCULTATORY SOUNDSPretest, Prosthetic valve sounds and murmurs, Aortic prosthetic valves, Mitral prosthetic valves, Pericardial friction rubs, Mediastinal crunch, PosttestFOUR Breath sound fundamentals12 THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM AND AUSCULTATIONPretest, Anatomy and physiology, The mechanics of breathing, Auscultatory areas, Auscultatory techniques, Posttest13 INTRODUCTION TO BREATH SOUNDSPretest, Breath sound production, Terminology, Documenting auscultation findings, Posttest "FIVE Normal breath sounds14 BREATH SOUNDS HEARD IN HEALTHY INDIVIDUALSPretest, Anatomy and physiology, PosttestSIX Abnormal breath sounds15 BRONCHIAL BREATH SOUNDSPretest, Sound production, Posttest16 ABNORMAL VOICE SOUNDSPretest, Sound production, Posttest17 ABSENT AND DIMINISHED BREATH SOUNDSPretest, Sound production, Posttest "SEVEN Other abnormal breath sounds18 CLASSIFYING ADVENTITIOUS SOUNDSPretest, Confusion over terminology, Current classification system, Posttest19 ADVENTITIOUS SOUNDS: CRACKLESPretest, Sound production, Documentation, Late inspiratory crackles, Early inspiratory and expiratory crackles, Pleural crackles, Posttest20 ADVENTITIOUS SOUNDS: WHEEZESPretest, Sound production, Expiratory polyphonic wheezes, Fixed monophonic wheezes, Sequential inspiratory wheezes, Random monophonic wheezes, Stridor, PosttestAuscultation findings for common disordersAssessment flowcharts for common auscultation findingsEnglish-Spanish phrases used in cardiac and respiratory assessmentPosttest answersSelected readingsGlossaryIndex Details ISBN1451189990 Year 2013 Edition 5th ISBN-10 1451189990 ISBN-13 9781451189995 Format Paperback Place of Publication Philadelphia Country of Publication United States Media Book Author Jessica Shank Coviello Pages 256 Subtitle Breath & Heart Sounds Replaces 9781605474540 Illustrations 207 Qualifications DNP, APRN, ANP-BC DEWEY 616.07544 Short Title AUSCULTATION SKILLS 5/E Language English UK Release Date 2013-11-19 NZ Release Date 2013-11-19 US Release Date 2013-11-19 Publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Edition Description 5th edition Publication Date 2013-11-19 Imprint Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2013-11-21 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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ISBN-13: 9781451189995
Book Title: Auscultation Skills
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Auscultation Skills: Breath & Heart Sounds
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Medicine, Nursing
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 295 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Jessica Shank Coviello
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback