The following are textbooks of possible interest and are available either in print or online. To find more books of interest, use the search box below.
Cardiovascular Exam
Cardiovascular physiology : a clinical approach by 
Levick's Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology, Sixth Edition by 
Hurst's the heart by 
Cardiovascular Physiology by 
DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination by Not finding what you need? Having trouble using one of our resources? Please let us know.
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| Not sure where to start? The first step is to understand what your question is -- try writing it out. What are the aspects of this question that you will search? Go to resources most likely to have the information you need. Is it a clinical or a general or background understanding that you seek? Are you looking to find the best diagnostic tool for the patient or perhaps you have a treatment related question? |
Resources for this case include: Textbook Suggestions (look left) Resource Highlight -- Point of Care Tools Dr. Gates DDX & Symptom Checker Tip National Organizations & Guidelines PubMed Search Tips -- Search the Title field Patient Information Resources -- Great for easy to understand images |
Point of Care Tools
These types of resources are designed to be easy to use in the busy clinic, hospital, or doctor's office. Each one has different strenghts and weaknesses. Become familiar with all of them so you can quickly find the information you need and also make informed choices about which ones to use to take advantage of their strength.
Wiggers & Cardiac Catheterization Resources
It is important for everyone to understand Wiggers this week. I found a couple of interesting animations below - check it out. For this topic, the point of care resources like Up To Date may not have the information you need - this is more of a background type of question, so best resources will be textbooks. I think our best resource is a print book - so don't be afraid to come look at it (Cardiovascular physiology : a clinical approach, ch. 4. Use call number WG 102 C258 1988)
Also, your lecture notes will be very helpful for this. If you use them, reference them, and if you need help creating that citation, check out the Cite it Right page.
Cardiac Exams & Sounds
Many of your questions this week are best answered in some of our textbooks, your course texts or even your course notes. In addition to the ones along the left side of the page or below, we have a unique video journal called Jove Science Education that has 3 videos on the cardiac exam - including abnormal sounds.
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The art and science of cardiac physical examination: Everything you wanted to know. See WG 141 R196 2006 or online version. |
Auscultation skills : breath & heart sounds: In print only, but supplemental CD is available - check it out. See WF 39 A932 2006. |
DeGowin's Diagnostic Examination: Provides great detail on how to conducted an exam including listening to and grading murmurs. See WB 200 D3194 2009 or online version. |
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JOVE Cardiac Exam I: Inspection & Palpatation |
JOVE Cardiac Exam II: Auscultation |
JOVE Cardiac Exam III: Abnormal Heart Sounds Reviews several different abnormal sounds and may be a little more advanced than you need for this case. These videos also have a transcript under the video so you can quickly scan for the part of the video that might be most helpful. |
Searching PubMed
A searching tip I use often is "Think like an author" meaning what terms of your search would be important enough to be in the title?
Perhaps your question this week is to know more about echocardiogram (or echocardiography) and ejection fraction and you want to see the latest literature on this topic. A simple keyword search in PubMed with these two terms will give you too many articles to really go through (over15,000). How can you narrow things down a little?
Tell PubMed that echocardiogram should be in the title of the the articles it retrieves. This is called field searching and can help focus your results down to an interesting (and much shorter) list of articles to review. For a more encompassing search, use truncation of echocardiogra* so you get variations on this term. You have two options to do this
1) Specify in the search box the field to search. You do that by adding [title] at the end of a search term - perhaps, echocardiogram - like this: echocardiogra*[title] and ejection fraction[title].
2) Instead of typing in [title], you can use the Advanced Search form and specify the field on the drop-down boxes. Look for the "Advanced" link right under the search box.
Many of you will have discussed this somewhat already in your groups, but if you need to expand on the topic, here are some thoughts on how to do that.
