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Doody's Star Rating
This product 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.
Auscultation Skills: Breath and Heart Sounds, fourth edition offers full coverage of heart and breath sounds from the simple to the complex and provides a comprehensive text explaining heart and breath sound fundamentals including basic anatomy and physiology, best auscultation locations, tips on how to identify each sound, and what to document.
Tips and alerts abound throughout the book to help manage optimal care. A glossary of commonly used terms and abbreviations and an easy-to-read chart of common disorders matched with their specific abnormal breath and heart sounds add to the book's utility.
- Author/Editor: Springhouse
- ISBN/ISSN: 9781605474540
- Specialty: Skills & Procedures
- Language:English
- Edition: 4th
- Pages: 256
- Illustrations: 213
- Year: 2009
Doody's Star Rating®
This is the only book–and–audio–CD product on the market that offers full coverage of heart and breath sounds from the simple to the complex and provides a comprehensive text explaining heart and breath sound fundamentals including basic anatomy and physiology, best auscultation locations, tips on how to identify each sound, and what to document.
- 3 stars
- score: 85
- Doody's Core Title: 2.67 (Nursing — Ambulatory)
- Doody's Core Title: 2.47 (Nursing — Coronary)
Expert review from Doody's Review Service:
“As an auditory learner, I know this book would have been helpful when I studied health assessment, and that it will help me improve my cardiac and pulmonary assessment skills.”
Rosanne Griggs, BSN, MS, PhD, FNP–Bc
Purdue University School of Nursing
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