"This unique resource combines a comprehensive book with innovative audio sounds to help you master cardiac auscultation. The text explains how to identify and interpret normal and common abnormal heart sounds, while the audio lets you actually hear the sounds about which you are learning." -- back cover.

Reviews normal and abnormal heart and lung sounds to enable students to use a stethoscope intelligently.

Tapes include recordings of heart sounds and murmurs from patients, complemented by a detailed discussion in the book of these and and phonocardiographic tracings from patients. Includes pre- and post-tests.

Heart Sounds Made Incredibly Easy! is an entertaining, easy-to-read, practical, and informative reference that includes an audio CD of heart sounds for those who must accurately interpret heart sounds and understand their implications, diagnosis, and treatments. Revealing the importance of accurate heart sound interpretation, this Incredibly Easy! title walks the reader through more than 65 heart sounds. The book includes an audio index and cues to the CD throughout the text for each sound, which allows the reader to listen to the sounds sequentially with the book or review them out of sequence.

Presents the information necessary to understand and recognize normal heart sounds and the most common abnormal sounds. Tape was made with a heart sound simulator using studio recording equipment.