Cardiac Auscultation

[daedalus]

How many paramedics incorporate this into their practice? I am still in school, and there is some information about heart sounds in the Mosby book, and I also read DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination and listen to sounds on UCLA's website, but am wondering if these will even be relevant to my real world practice.

 

[Ridryder911]

There is a time and place for listening heart tones. I personally do not know why anyone would not want to learn such, since it is an essential part of an assessment.

 

[Ms.Medic]

How many paramedics incorporate this into their practice? I am still in school, and there is some information about heart sounds in the Mosby book, and I also read DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination and listen to sounds on UCLA's website, but am wondering if these will even be relevant to my real world practice.

We learned this in my course as well, it was very interesting. I posted a thread about heart sounds here, and there were a few helpful links. Its really neat to listen to different heart sounds...I listen to every single patients heart, just to do it. Interesting stuff.

 

[Ms.Medic]

How many paramedics incorporate this into their practice? I am still in school, and there is some information about heart sounds in the Mosby book, and I also read DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination and listen to sounds on UCLA's website, but am wondering if these will even be relevant to my real world practice.

P.S. EVERYTHING YOU LEARN WILL BE RELEVANT.........in one way or another.

 

[Veneficus]

How many paramedics incorporate this into their practice? I am still in school, and there is some information about heart sounds in the Mosby book, and I also read DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination and listen to sounds on UCLA's website, but am wondering if these will even be relevant to my real world practice.

There is no such thing as useless assessment skills, it is largely what you make of them. There are also some good assessment techniques of cranial nerves and right ventricular output that can be very useful if you learn and practice them. Alike percussion is a lost art.

Bate's Guide is my favorite book for it, learn all you can do not settle to be a mediocre provider.

 

[fma08]

We barely covered it... I'm regretting that it wasn't covered in more detail. I'm working on trying to learn it on my own.

 

[Street Doc]

Had a pt with possible Cardiac Tomponade. Took a listen and sure enough it sounded muffled. At the hospital the nurse looked at me like <_< sure he dose. He ended up getting a little tube put in his heart right there in the ER.