Demonstrations: Heart sounds and murmurs, edition 1. University of Washington Department of Medicine, Advanced Physical Diagnosis. http://depts.washington.edu/physdx/heart/demo.html Audio clips of a few heart sounds -- from normal to mitral regurgitation to split ST -- and others.
Auscultation Assistant http://www.med.ucla.edu/wilkes/lungintro.htm - This site developed as a special project of a UCLA medical student in 1997, includes both lung and heart sound clips.
R.A.L.E. ® Repository Pasterkamp, Hans. University of Manitoba. http://www.rale.ca/Recordings.htm This is a good resource for lung sound clips and was the source for some of the sound clips in the Auscultation Assistant listed above. Look for the sounds under the "Repository" section.
Lung Sounds and the Stethoscope. Cugel, David W. Loyola University Medical Center.http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/MEDICINE/PULMONAR/IMAGES/CD-LungSounds/mac/cugell-07july11.swf Discusses the historical development of the stethoscope and gives some feedback about listening to breath sounds. The "Sound index"includes examples of crackles, wheezes and other sounds like friction rub and stridor.
http://lifeinthefastlane.com/ecg-library/basics/diagnosis/
Life in the Fast Lane.
Basic ECG organized by diagnosis A-Z or searchable. Created by Emergency physicians in Australia. If you are looking for basic EKG's to interpret and explore this is the website for you!
http://www.madsci.com/manu/indexekg.htm
***MicroEKG Manual
This is a small online textbook that systematically looks at EKGs-- from the machinery and the leads, to the parts of the EKG (P wave, QRS complex, etc.), the axis and then to discussions of common abnormalities. The diagrams and sample EKG strips are a helpful addition to the textual information.
http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/melp/
McGill EKG Quiz
This site lets you select EKGs as unknowns and then click on the Interpretation (button on left side of screen) for feedback about the EKG findings.
http://ecg.bidmc.harvard.edu/maven/mavenmain.asp
**ECG Wave-Maven [knowledgeable one]: Self-Assessment Program for Students and Clinicians.
This has an extensive listing of (close to 400) practice EKGs which can be browsed in quiz mode with multiple choice options or may be searched by diagnosis or difficulty level.
http://www.fammed.wisc.edu/medstudent/pcc/ecg/ecg.html
Introduction to ECG Interpretation
This is a clear and readable introduction developed by professors of General Internal Medicine at the University of Wisconsin -Madison. It includes basic concepts of EKG interpretation -- from rate, rhythm and axis to specific disease conditions.
http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/ecg/ecg_outline/Lesson3/index.html
ECG Learning Center
Lindsey, Alan E. University of Utah. A professor from University of Utah discusses the basics of EKGs.
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