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Challenger Heart Sounds   

 

 

 

 

 

About This Course

Challenger Fundamentals: Heart Sounds is a complete cardiac auscultation course on CD, providing clinicians with the opportunity to identify normal and many types of clinically significant abnormal heart sounds. Additionally, users will be able to list methods for differentiating abnormal heart sounds so as to aid in diagnosis.

In medicine the best tools are the most versatile and easiest to use. If you're one of the thousands of physicians seeking clinical review, CME credit hours, or a quick and modern clinical reference resource, wouldn't you like a tool to fulfill all your needs? Look no further. Challenger Fundamentals: Heart Sounds, like all Challenger products, provides the resources and functionality you need in one, cost-effective, easy-to-use, go-anywhere package.

Dr. Constant, a renowned cardiac expert, is also the author of Learning Electrocardiography: A Complete Course, published by Little, Brown, and Company. This text is now in its fourth edition and is published in three languages. It is also the basis of Challenger Fundamentals: ECG Principles of Electrocardiography available on CD-ROM and the Internet, published by Challenger Corporation.

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Large, High Resolution Image Bank

Full-color, high-resolution imagery has always been one of the hallmarks of Challenger programs.

Every image is assigned to the appropriate standard-of-care topic, and most can be enlarged for detailed examination and observation. Labels on imagery, diagrams, and ultrasound videos can be switched on and off for quick reference and self-testing.

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CME Credit

Challenger Fundamentals: Heart Sounds is intended for acute care physicians to enhance the mastery of these subjects through challenging assessment quizzes and also earn up to 19.0 AMA Category 1 CME credits from The University of Colorado School of Medicine.

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General Features

 


Board-style Q&A Review and Knowledge Bank

Self-Assess and Strengthen Knowledge: Every Challenger product is built as a rigorous review course providing clinical exam standard Q&A with rich remediation text and supporting materials.

Proven Methodology: Our progammed learning progression is a proven system that enhances retention so you are prepared for your examinations.

Elegant Interactivity: On-screen display is efficient and easy to use. Navigate to specific content quickly.

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Focus-In Testing (Find and Fix Weaknesses)


Focused Remediation: Topic-specific learning modules provide media-rich information and practice-review-test workflow.

Find and Fix Weak Areas: Our comprehensive courses provide "three tier testing" - the abililty to pretest over a broad area of specialty knowledge, receive information on areas of embedded weakness, remediate specifically on topics of exposed weakness, then prepare all knowledge through a re-usable, board-style exam simulation.

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On-Demand Standard-of-Care Clinical Information


Clinical Reference: Our courses seamlessly integrate clinical text, imagery, and interactive, boards-style questions and answers into one easy-to-use reference, review, and assessment experience. Indeed, our clients have said that reviewing our Q&A materials provides a more practical review than reading a textbook!

Searchability: Whether you are looking for a specific topic, collection of images, or specific phrase, Challenger's Internet-based search engine allows you to locate references in seconds. Launch right into the clinical section you wish to see.

Tailored Content: We deliver complete and accurate state-of-the-art clinical information. You can reduce your risk and remain current in your career with our cutting-edge new material covering key topics that fit your specialty.

Outside Sources: Looking to further explore a peculiar presentation? Searching medication effects for a peculiar case? Our courses also offer live links to PubMed, Med-Line, and other outside resources allowing you to easily refresh your knowledge or research your cases. There is no other comparable peer-reviewed product providing both comprehensive review and the most up-to-date information on standards of care in all of our material.

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Anywhere Portability and Flexible Access


Your Place, Your Pace: Work in a manner that suits your needs. Don't have time to drive or fly to that Boards Prep seminar? Have it come to you.

Online and Offline: When you purchase any Challenger program, you will gain an online learning portal account at www.challengercme.com, through which you can access your coursework material via any computer with an Internet connection. You will receive a CD-ROM containing the same content and working course for those times where you are without an Internet connection.

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Automatic Content Updates and Enhancements


Accurate Information, Updated Continuously: Challenger prides itself on staying up-to-date in all aspects of medicine. All our courses are routinely peer-reviewed and continuously updated. Our content review cycle is aggresive, allowing us to keep our content ahead of that found in textbooks.

Upgrade Savings: Future upgrades are provided to Challenger clients at a fraction of the standard retail cost. This way, as the face of medicine changes, our valued customers can cost-effectively keep their coursework and reference library current. Of course, the best value Challenger offers is the Challenger Lifetime Subscription (CLS) — all products and upgrades for a one-time enrollment fee.

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Media-Richness: Clinical Images, Charts, and More


Visual Assets: Image-richness has always been one of the hallmarks of Challenger programs and all courses are designed to deliver "after-study" value by allowing easy access to the imagery and other support media found in Q&A coursework. Our comprehensive courses, not to mention our gold-standard integrated textbooks, come packed with thousands of high-resolution clinical photographs, radiographs, diagnostic illustrations and charts, videos, and much more.

Education in Mind: We also encourage our patrons to make use of the images we supply for private and clinical educational use. We only ask that you cite Challenger Corporation's course as your source. Great for faculty lectures, resident training, and your clinical publications.

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Built-in, Multi-Year CME Credits


Earn While Your Learn: Challenger issues CME certificates directly from our office, saving you the hassle of earning CME on someone else's schedule and the travel expense of attending remote CME events. Save you spare time for family and friends. Just complete your coursework and mail or fax your printed scores or submit them directly via your online Challenger account. Your scores and evaluation form (required by all accredited CME sponsors) are processed immediately. Challenger works closely with our prestigious institutional joint sponsors to maintain the most rewarding educational experience possible.

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Free All-Support


We'll be with you every step of the way: Whether your question relates to technical function, content, or CME processing, our staff is on standby during normal business hours to assist you for FREE. You can always reach us between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. CST from Monday through Friday, except on national holidays. Quick-help forms are also provided online for after-hours reporting, which we proactively address upon the next business day. In short, any problem will be diagnosed and treated quickly.

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Table of Contents

Introduction:
About the Heart Sound Recordings

The First Heart Sound:
Splitting of S1 and Aortic Ejection Sounds
Pulmonary Ejection Clicks
Loudness of the First Heart Sound

The Second Heart Sound:
S2
Fixed Split of S2
Paradoxical Split of S2
Tambour S2

The Opening Snap:
The Opening Snap

The Third and Fourth Heart Sound:
S3
S4

Ejection Murmurs and Clicks:
Ejection Murmurs
Distinguishing the Severity of Aortic Stenosis
Pulmonary Stenosis
Ejection and Non-Ejection Clicks

Systolic Regurgitant Murmurs:
Mitral Regurgitation
Tricuspid Regurgitation
Ventricular Septal Defect

Diastolic Murmurs:
Mitral Stenosis
Tricuspid Stenosis
Aortic Regurgitation
Austin Flint Murmurs

Continuous Murmurs, Rubs and Historical Sounds:
Continuous Murmurs
Friction Rubs
Historical Sounds
Conclusion




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Contributors

Author:
Jules Constant, MD, FACC
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii

Editor:
Andrea C. Eberly, MD
Challenger Corporation
Memphis, Tennessee

 

 


CME Accreditation

Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Challenger Corporation.

The University of Colorado School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Certification Statement
The American College of Emergency Physicians designates this educational activity for up to 19.0 Category 1 credits towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

 

 

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