- American Heart Association - Looks at heart murmurs and their causes.
- Cardiac Auscultation - Ten heart sounds to listen to including a normal heart to compare sounds.
- Cardiothoracic Surgery of Savannah - Includes an explanation of how heart valves work, and audio files with the sounds of common heart valve murmurs.
- Children's Heart Institute - Among some of the topics discussed are, causes of innocent and non-innocent murmurs and physical signs present. Audio to experience the different sounds.
- Cincinnati Children's Heart Center - The heart center encyclopedia offers information about heart murmurs. Includes the types, signs and symptoms and common questions.
- eMedTV Heart Murmur Channel - Providing medically reviewed information on the causes, complications and the current treatments.
- Family Practice Notebook: Heart Auscultation - Examination of valve murmurs. Detailed topics such as characteristics, timing, severity, causes and management.
- Florida Thoracic and Cardiovascular Associates - Explains what a heart murmur is, about heart valves, how a normal heart works and problems. Includes audio of 5 different heart sounds.
- Heart Murmurs and Your Child - An article addressing the diagnoses of this disorder, as well as congenital heart defects, common heart defects and their treatment.
- Heart Murmurs in Children: What Parents Should Know - What parents should know regarding a normal heart murmur, and what does it mean. Discusses when it is a sign of a problem.
- Landon Pediatric Foundation - Fred Leong M.D looks at common heart sounds and murmurs in infants, innocent murmurs, pathologic murmurs, and diastolic continuous murmurs. Audio as well to hear the heart sounds.
- MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Heart sounds - Article about the definition, alternative names, common causes in detail, what to expect from your doctor and test procedures of heart murmurs.
- Murmurs of the Heart - Discussion by Daniel J. Waters, D.O., FCCP on the causes and diagnosing of this disorder.
- Rush Children's Heart Center - In-depth look at how to evaluate a murmur, symptoms to look for, physical examination, auscultation, and features of the innocent murmur.
- School Nurse.com - An article examining how a young patient should be diagnosed and observed for detection heart murmurs. Whether to tell the parents or when to record it in the medical records is discussed.
- School of Nursing - Presented are audio of numerous heart sounds and murmurs.
- The Auscultation Assistant - Audio to differentiate the characteristics of heart murmurs and discussion of the different types of murmurs.
Last update: 2008-11-30 21:51:35
