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Critical Care Nursing - Auscultation SimulatorsHealth Information
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Auscultation Assistant Description: Audio files of (simulated) heart and actual lung sounds with explanations of physiology. (med.ucla.edu) |
Blaufuss Medical Multimedia Laboratories Description: Offers digital recordings of actual patients, with high-resolution animations, ECGs and explanatory text. Tutorials and online quiz. (blaufuss.org) |
Heart Sounds Description: WAV files of various normal and abnormal sounds. (members.aol.com) |
HeartLab: FamilyPractice.com Description: Provides text and icons to illustrate examination technique, describing both chest locations and patient maneuvers that are usually best to identify particular physical findings. Users can select the listening location to hear (simulated) normal and abnormal heart sounds and murmurs. Requires that Java and JavaScript be enabled. (familypractice.com) |
McGill Virtual Stethoscope Project Description: Listen to heart sounds, murmurs, breath sounds, and visualize them with spectra and shockwave animations. (sprojects.mmi.mcgill.ca) |
Practice of Medicine: The Cardiac Exam Description: Dennis Desilvey, M.D., demonstrates the cardiac examination on a healthy subject in this 18-minute video, giving descriptions on how to listen with the stethoscope and how to observe the patient. Requires QuickTime. (hsc.virginia.edu) |
The R.A.L.E. Repository Description: Presents digital recordings of respiratory sounds in health and disease. (rale.ca) |
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