Mastering the Physical Assessment Webcast Series Session #2 Mastering the Cardiac Assessment – Cyndi Zarbano

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Session Description: 

It is common for even the most experienced healthcare provider to miss the physical findings that will lead to proper care for the patient. Don’t let this happen to you! This session of our Physical Assessment webcast series will teach you the in-depth Cardiac Assessment Skills you need to consistently provide the highest level of care for your patients. Cyndi Zarbano delivers an excellent presentation complete with audio examples of normal and abnormal heart sounds which will give you the skills you need on the job!

Session Topics:

• Cardiac Assessment
  • Assessing chest pain
    1. Many thing that aren’t heart can cause chest pain
    2. What clues during your assessment can help you decide what is this patient s symptom origin?
  • Heart failure – recognizing the assessment changes expected with each
    1. Right-sided heart failure
    2. Left-sided heart failure
    3. Mixed heart failure
    4. Cor Pulmonale – Learn what diagnosis just moved into second place for cause!
  • Abnormal and extra heart tones – discuss and listen to examples!
    1. Differentiate between normal and abnormal tones
    2. S3
    3. S4
    4. Summation Gallop
    5. Pericardial rub
    6. Clicks
    7. Murmurs
    • –Classification of murmurs
      1. Systolic murmurs
      2. Diastolic murmurs
      3. Continuous murmurs
  • Correct auscultation of heart tones & location of heart valves

Session Objectives

1. Identify the importance of listening over all four heart valves every time doing a cardiac assessment.
2. Distinguish between systolic and diastolic murmurs.
3. Recognize the significance of S3 and S4 heart sounds.