Bedside cardiology

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Bedside cardiology

Jules Constant

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c1999

5th ed

Available at  / 5 libraries

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

The Fifth Edition of this classic text has been thoroughly revised. It focuses on teaching the clinical diagnostic skills of history-taking and physical examination - skills that are essential when choosing cost-effective high-technology laboratory tests and evaluating test results. The book begins with a complete checklist for history-taking, and proceeds through physical inspection, palpation, auscultation, heart sounds, and murmurs. The highly praised question-and-answer format engages the reader's attention and enables students to test themselves by covering the answers. More than 150 photographs, diagrams, and other illustrations demonstrate key examination techniques and concepts. Important terms are printed in boldface and defined in a glossary.

Table of Contents

  • The evolving checklist in history taking
  • cardiac clues from physical appearance
  • arterial pulses and pressures
  • jugular pressure and pulsations
  • inspection, palpation, and auscultation of the chest
  • the stethoscope
  • diagramming and grading heart sounds and murmurs (the auscultogram)
  • the first heart sound (S1)
  • the second heart sound (S2)
  • the opening snap (OS)
  • the third heart sound (S3)
  • the fourth heart sound (S4)
  • ejection murmurs
  • systolic regurgitant murmurs
  • diastolic murmurs
  • abdominal murmurs
  • prosthetic valve sounds
  • systolic time intervals.

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