Auscultation Skills

This popular book-and-audio-CD product offers nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants a solid basis for recognizing and differentiating among abnormal breath and heart sounds. The full-color text with over 200 illustrations offers comprehensive coverage of simple and complex breath and heart sounds and explains fundamentals including anatomy, physiology, best auscultation locations, tips for identifying each sound, and documentation pointers.

The all-in-one CD features 46 tracks of breath sounds and 50 tracks of heart sounds, all enhanced for clarity, which can be listened to sequentially with the book or reviewed in any order the reader chooses. The CD can be listened to in the car or on the computer; it can be downloaded to the computer and converted to MP3 files.