Cardiac auscultation is one of the most widely used diagnostic techniques in veterinary medicine. This comprehensive book on heart sounds and murmurs contains over 100 illustrations and an enclosed audio CD with over 60 examples of heart sound recordings.
an aid to the veterinary student and the practicing veterinarian to interpret normal and abnormal heart sounds auscultated through the stethoscope or recorded on a phonocardiogram
examples provided in the book/CD serve as a library of heart sounds and murmurs to aid during a diagnostic work-up of cardiac cases
contains extensive explanations on how normal or abnormal heart sounds and murmurs are generated and how these sounds may be graphically displayed and evaluated further using phonocardiography