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In school children, cardiac auscultation by machine (Phonocardioscan) has shown promise as a screening procedure. To determine its effectiveness as a screening procedure in adults, results obtained by ...

Background Heart auscultation is a widely used and cost-effective clinical tool for detecting valvular heart disease (VHD), particularly in primary care. However, existing evidence on its diagnostic ...

A SEARCH for cardiac murmurs is frequently the major objective of cardiac auscultation, and all too often insufficient attention is given to the heart sounds. In the past few years there has been a ...

Correspondence to Dr Jonathan A Drezner, Department of Family Medicine, Sports Medicine Section, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-0005, USA; jdrezner{at}uw.edu Objectives We assessed ...

During cardiac auscultation, I have the patient lean forward, take a deep breath, and forcefully exhale. The combination of maneuvers causes retractions of the chest cavity, making the heart closer to ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Objective To compare the effect of admission cardiotocography and Doppler auscultation of the fetal heart on neonatal outcome and levels of ...

When a doctor puts a stethoscope on a patient's chest, he or she usually asks the patient to breathe in deeply and breathe out slowly. This is quite common when a patient has a cold or serious cough: ...

Murmurs are characterized by their grade, pitch, timing in the cardiac cycle, change in intensity, quality, location heard best, and radiation. Systolic murmurs. Almost all systolic murmurs begin in ...