Auscultation skills : breath & heart sounds /
Jessica Shank Coviello, DNP, APRN, ANP-BC, Associate Professor, Yale University School of Nursing, West Campus, West Haven, Connecticut .
- Fifth edition.
- xi, 239 p. : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Preceded by Auscultation skills. 4th ed. c2010.
Includes bibliographical references (page 218) and index.
The heart and auscultation -- Heart sound dynamics -- The first heart sound -- The second heart sound -- The third and fourth heart sounds -- Other diastolic and systolic sounds -- Murmur fundamentals -- Systolic murmurs -- Diastolic murmurs -- Continuous murmurs -- Other auscultatory sounds -- The respiratory system and auscultation -- Introduction to breath sounds -- Breath sounds heard in healthy individuals -- Bronchial breath sounds -- Abnormal voice sounds -- Absent and diminished breath sounds -- Classifying adventitious sounds -- Adventitious sounds : crackles -- Adventitious sounds : wheezes.