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Information: Auscultation is the practice of listening, usually with a stethoscope, to the chest. Two basic sub-categories are 1) heart sounds (and murmurs) and 2) lung sounds. Auscultation simulators are an attempt to teach medical trainees to recognize what they h
Auscultation Simulators Sites:
McGill Virtual Stethoscope Project McGill Virtual Stethoscope Project: Listen to heart sounds, murmurs, breath sounds, and visualize them with spectra and shockwave animations. (Auscultation Simulators) http://sprojects.mmi.mcgill.ca/mvs/mvsteth.htm
Practice of Medicine: The Cardiac Exam Practice of Medicine: The Cardiac Exam: 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. (Auscultation Simulators) http://hsc.virginia.edu/med-ed/pom/videos/cardiac.html
HeartLab: FamilyPractice.com HeartLab: FamilyPractice.com: 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 abno (Auscultation Simulators) http://www.familypractice.com/heartlab/heartlab.htm
Blaufuss Medical Multimedia Laboratories Blaufuss Medical Multimedia Laboratories: Offers digital recordings of actual patients, with high-resolution animations, ECGs and explanatory text. Tutorials and online quiz. (Auscultation Simulators) http://www.blaufuss.org/
Auscultation Assistant Auscultation Assistant: Audio files of (simulated) heart and actual lung sounds with explanations of physiology. (Auscultation Simulators) http://www.med.ucla.edu/wilkes/intro.html
The R.A.L.E. Repository The R.A.L.E. Repository: Presents digital recordings of respiratory sounds in health and disease. (Auscultation Simulators) http://www.rale.ca/Repository.htm
Heart Sounds Heart Sounds: WAV files of various normal and abnormal sounds. (Auscultation Simulators) http://members.aol.com/kjbleu/heartsounds.html