Cardiac auscultation is one of the most difficult clinical skills to acquire and competence in this area is extremely variable. This book features the visual representation of the cardiac cycle that helps readers understand the origin of the heart sounds. It includes questions and answers allowing readers to monitor their knowledge and progress.

Salient Features
* The book provides a simple guide to cardiac auscultation along with useful teaching points and summaries
* The interactive CD recordings allow the various components of each heart sound to be eliminated and restored to aid understanding
* Using this package of book and CD the reader can gain a full understanding of cardiac auscultation in minutes that can take years to learn in clinical practice
* This CD is suitable for use in all PC/Macs which have a tray-loading CD-ROM drive. It is not compatible with slot-loading CD-ROM drives

Table of Contents
* Introduction to auscultation
* The Aortic area
* The Pulmonary area
* The Mid Left sternal edge
* The Lower Left sternal edge
* The Apex
* The back
* Glossary
* Index