Heart Sounds: What is Your Patient’s Heart Telling You?

Understand heart sounds, heart murmurs, and how to best identify next steps for your patient.

Member Cost: $0 | Non-member Cost: $0
Credits: 1.0 CE contact hours

Course Overview

Join Jane Linderbaum, MS, CNP, AACC, as she reviews basic heart sounds (S1, S2) and how to recognize third and fourth sounds, gallops, and pericardial rubs. After this course, you will be able to describe and identify diagnostic heart sounds/murmurs including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, mitral valve prolapse, and aortic and mitral stenosis and regurgitation. Additionally, this course will discuss the clinical significance of pathological heart sounds and identify next steps in clinical management.

Member Cost: $0 | Non-member Cost: $0
Credits: 1.0 CE contact hours

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Learning Objectives

1. Review basic heart sounds (S1, S2) and recognize third, fourth sounds, gallops, and pericardial rubs

2. Describe and identify diagnostic heart sounds/murmurs including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, mitral valve prolapse, and aortic and mitral stenosis and regurgitation

3. Discuss the clinical significance of pathological heart sounds and identify next steps in clinical management

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Faculty

Jane Linderbaum, MS, CNP, AACC

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This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Accreditation Standards of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners® (AANP) through the joint providership of PCNA. PCNA is accredited by AANP as an approved provider of nurse practitioner continuing education. Provider number: 030602.