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Are You Getting The Most Out Of Your Stethoscope?
In a voluntary study of 1,100 cardiologists, participants were able to recognize fewer than half of basic murmurs and only two-thirds of advanced murmurs. How confident are you in your cardiac auscultation skills?
Heart Songs 4 provides you with everything you need to effortlessly improve your cardiac auscultation skills! Simply watch/listen to each high definition video within Heart Songs 2 to 4 times to master each murmur. The videos include descriptions of each murmur, images of phonocardiograms, CT scans and color Doppler echos, intermixed with 200 repetitions of each murmur. Interactive quizzes let you measure your baseline skill and your level of improvement. And best of all, once you’ve mastered a sound, it will be reinforced every time you hear it in a patient.
After only 90 minutes using Heart Songs, the study participants nearly doubled their score on the basic murmurs and saw a 30% score improvement for advanced murmurs. The stethoscope is as important today as it was 200 years ago. Do you know what yours is telling you?
With Heart Songs 4, you will.
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Heart Songs 4 Table of Contents
Heart Songs 4 Table of Contents
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Editors & Release Dates:
Editors & Release Dates:
Editors: Michael J. Barrett, MD, FACC Nurse Planner: Chris Keenan, RN, MSN, CCRN Date of Release: 3/31/2016 Date of Expiration: 3/31/2019 | ||||||||
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Target Audience & Learning Objectives
Target Audience & Learning Objectives
Target Audience The target audience includes any healthcare professional interested in improving his/her cardiac auscultation skills. Learning Objectives Upon completion of Heart Songs 4, learners will be able to demonstrate improved recognition and differentiation of:
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Format and Pricing
Format and Pricing
This program is available online and in a downloadable native app* featuring the following:
Members: $150 *App will become available in late 2016. | ||||||||
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CME, CE, and MOC Information
CME, CE, and MOC Information
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Research Basis for Heart Songs
Research Basis for Heart Songs
Cardiac auscultation has traditionally been taught as if it were an intellectual skill, with a didactic lecture followed by a brief demonstration of heart sounds. This approach has yielded disappointing results, with most clinicians able to recognize only about 40% of abnormal heart sounds. Heart Songs, on the other hand, is based on psychoacoustic research demonstrating that intensive repetition (400 to 600 times) is required for the human brain to master a new sound. This degree of repetition is necessary for the formation of an auditory template of each new sound. Once each new sound is mastered, it is reinforced each time you hear it in a patient. By using this learning principle from psychoacoustic research, Heart Songs produces a significant improvement in cardiac auscultation in a relatively short time. Two controlled trials1,2 have shown that proficiency in cardiac auscultation routinely exceeds 80% using this approach. Heart Songs 4 provides you with high-quality heart sounds that you can listen to at your convenience so you can improve your cardiac auscultation skills. | ||||||||
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References
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