Easy Auscultation Expands Sound Builder for Heart Sounds

Boston, MA, March 17, 2011 --(PR.com)-- MedEdu, LLC (www.easyauscultation.com) is pleased to announce that it has tripled the number of heart sound auscultation lessons with Sound Builder technology.

Sound Builder is a method of decomposing heart sounds into it key components: the first heart sound (S1), systole, the second heart sound (S2) and diastole/third/fourth heart sounds. Students can learn complex heart sounds by beginning with S1, adding S2, then systolic sounds and then diastolic sounds.

They now offer over 45 heart sound lessons with Sound Builder. Their lessons include audio recordings of simulated and actual patients, a virtual manikin, cardiac animation and dynamic waveform. A course quiz is also available.

The Easy Auscultation web site has over 80 heart and lung sound lessons. These multimedia lessons represent one of the most comprehensive sets of online auscultation materials available. Each lesson can be viewed with a PC/Mac browser, iPad or iPhone.

Easy Auscultation’s web site was established in 2009. The firm’s experienced team of physicians and developers have published over 300,000 copies of its auscultation courses for Lippincott, Littmann, Challenger and Prentice-Hall.

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