The Art and Science of Cardiac Physical Examination With Heart Sounds and Pulse Wave Forms on CD /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ranganathan, Narasimhan (Editor), Sivaciyan, Vahe (Editor), Saksena, Franklin B. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2007.
• Series: Contemporary Cardiology
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Medicine & Public Health.

Despite the fact that more than half the patients seeking care from an internal medicine specialist or a family physician will have either a primary or secondary cardiac problem, the teaching of cardiac auscultation, the physical examination of the heart, has been deteriorating since the advent of s...

Table of Contents:

• Approach to the Physical Examination of the Cardiac Patient
• Arterial Pulse
• Blood Pressure and Its Measurement
• Jugular Venous Pulse
• Precordial Pulsations
• Heart Sounds
• Heart Murmurs
• Heart Murmurs
• Elements of Auscultation
• Pathophysiological Basis of Symptoms and Signs in Cardiac Disease
• Local and Systemic Manifestations of Cardiovascular Disease.