Cardiac Auscultation: Rediscovering the Lost Art

Abstract Cardiac auscultation, long considered the centerpiece of the cardiac clinical examination, is rapidly becoming a lost art. Inadequate emphasis on the essentials of cardiac auscultation has resulted from the widespread availability of more elaborate and expensive “high-tech” diagnostic and t...

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Heart Sounds - physiology
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