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The positive feature of book includes innovative and proven effective teaching methods with the use of recordings of not only heart sounds and murmurs but also the actual video-recordings of both normal and abnormal jugular pulsations as well the precordial pulsations together with arterial flow signals and/or the heart sounds for timing of the events in relation to the cardiac cycle.

Every important topic has a summary of salient and practical points from the point of view of clinical assessment. This would serve for quick review as well as act as pointers needing reinforcement. Many illustrations of sounds and murmurs used in the text are derived from digital display of actual audio recordings from patients The pathophysiology of some of the important clinical cardiac conditions are shown in flow diagrams as well as in tabular format permitting logical review and reinforcement. The references given at the end of the chapters are specially chosen to provide a variety of pertinent as well as the classic papers.