Auscultating Heart Sounds

Hi class, in response to your expressed need about assessing heart sounds, I found this great site to practice listening and assessing.  Listen to it loudly at first, then turn the volume WAY down, and listen with your stethoscope. 

Use the suggested words to help distinguish S3 and S4.  Think of S3 as SLOSH -ing in, and S4 as "a STIFF wall".  This not only helps you remember what it sounds like, but why it sounds that way. 

http://www.wilkes.med.ucla.edu/inex.htm