Cardiac Auscultation

Cardiac Auscultation

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Cardiac and Pulmonary Auscultation

Auscultation of the heart is the most expedient and useful means by which heart disease in animals can be detected. When an experienced clinician finds the heart normal by auscultation, the likelihood of serious heart disease is very low. Definitive diagnosis can be made using a stethoscope (e.g. patent ductus arteriosus). More often a cardiovascular (CV) problem is identified by auscultation, ...

The physiology of cardiac auscultation.

Cardiac auscultation remains a critical component of the pediatric examination and is the primary method of diagnosis for the common innocent murmurs of childhood. This article outlines the significance of auscultation and defines the skills important for the diagnosis and recognition of common cardiac murmurs in childhood. The origin of heart sounds and murmurs is reviewed, and an approach to ...

Cardiac assessment part 2: Auscultation

Cardiac auscultation: rediscovering the lost art.

Cardiac auscultation, long considered the centerpiece of the cardiac clinical examination, is rapidly becoming a lost art. Inadequate emphasis on the essentials of cardiac auscultation has resulted from the widespread availability of more elaborate and expensive "high-tech" diagnostic and therapeutic methods, particularly Doppler echocardiography. However, sophisticated high technology is not a...