Auscultation

Auscultation overview

• Place of echocardiography in clinical examination
• Echocardiography of asymptomatic patients
• Echocardiography of symptomatic patients
• Echocardography of patients after diet pill use

Intensity & classification of murmurs

• Intensity
• Classification

Heart murmurs

• Systolic ejection murmurs
• Systolic regurgitant murmurs
• Systolic murmur location
• Exam accuracy of systolic murmurs
• Diastolic murmurs

Murmur evaluation

• Maneuvers that affect murmurs
• Innocent murmurs
• Pathologic murmurs
• How accurately do we recognize murmurs?

Heart Sounds

• First sound
• Second sound – normal splitting
• Second sound - abnormal splitting
• Systolic sounds
• Systolic sounds - early systole
• Systolic sounds - mid to late systole
• Diastolic sounds
• Diastolic sounds - mid to late
• How accurately do we recognize heart sounds?