Group Teaching Heart Auscultation Quiz
For best audio quality with group teaching I recommend that participants should access the cases individually on their own mobile device or laptop. Earbuds are quite satisfactory for this purpose, much better than room speakers.
Adult Case 4
40 year old male, works on a lobster fishing boat. Generally fit but noticed a bit more fatigue in the last year. Mild breathlessness when pulling 75 Kg lobster pots aboard. No chest pain, palpitations or dizziness. Followed from early childhood for a murmur. No family history of heart disease but has two young children, one of whom has a murmur but is healthy. On examination this man looks healthy and muscular, BMI 24. BP 125/75. Heart rate is 60 and regular. Breath sounds are normal. Apex beat is not displaced but appears a bit increased although he is slim.
There is a suprasternal notch thrill and a thrill at the right upper sternal edge. Pulses are a bit increased. You listen in the left and right upper sternal edges as well as the apex. This recording was made at the left sternal border, 3rd interspace.
Please note > Case 4 includes 3 extra recordings that have the same diagnoses
