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Mitral Valve Prolapse is a heart murmur found commonly in the general public and can cause heart palpitations, orthostatic hypotension (dizziness upon standing), other symptoms of an imbalanced nervous system and anxiety/panic symptoms. Medical Research studies have found it to be even more common in thyroid disease patients, especially those with autoimmune type thyroid disorders. It is also believed to be about 5 times more common in females than in males.Many people with MVP do not experience symptoms while those who do are termed as having "MVP-Syndrome". The condition can also cause an imbalance in the "involuntary nervous system" (dysautonomia) and has been associated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in some patients who have it.This in-print book, which is also available as an e-book title on Amazon, can help to provide the reader with a general education regarding the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of this very common heart murmur. ... Read more

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Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA. English/Spanish update of the original CD-ROM. System requirements: Mac System 7 and Windows 3.1. 8MB RAM, dual-speed CD-ROM drive, and 256 monitor. ... Read more

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Excellent program -Needs to be updated for current OSs
This is an excellent tool for personal learning and for teaching others heart sounds in a class setting. Along with the actual sounds (all types of murmurs, snaps, clicks, rubs, etc., etc.,) it makes excellent use of visual aides such as echocardiograms, animations, graphs, phonocardiograms, etc., etc. It also includes fairly clear textual explanations (some times the full understanding of a particular sound has to be pieced together from texts located under several examples rather than giving a complete account with each example) of the mechanics and physiology/pathophysiology of the sounds so that the learner gains a good understanding of what is going on with what they are hearing. I have used it often in the past for teaching medical students and practicing physicians in other countries (outside the the US) with very good results.
The big negative concerning this program has been mentioned by other reviewers. It is badly out of date for use with current computer operating systems. It was made in 1997 and I don't believe it has been upgraded for new systems since then. I have to look for older computers to get it to work. When it does work it is great.
Hey, Drs. Criley and Criley and Mr. Zalace and Blaufuss Medical Media - how about updating it for a new generation of medical learners??! If that is done it is well worth the price.

The physiological origins of heart sounds and murmurs: ...
John Criley and his son David have done a great job producing this tutorial. It should be in every medical library and seen by every medical student.

Available at Blaufuss Multimedia
This program is available, and updated for newer systems, and is also supported by the company that produced it, Blaufuss Multimedia.If you have trouble finding the product on Amazon, search for Heart Sounds on the internet.

This book/cd is out of print
and is no longer supported by the company that produced it. It is good only for older computer systems, read the specs, windows 3.1 or macintosh 7.

It's a good book/cd but is not New.

User friendly, physiologically sound, and truly unique.
Criley's interactive CD ROM program on cardiac physiology and findings is a masterpiece.The content is solid and enables an inquisitive student (any student of medicine) to learn to relate physical findings with thephysiology as represented by phono, ECG, pressure traces and renderings ofthe physical cardiac cycle.The multimedia presentation far excels thatwhich is available on the WEB and makes for an intriguing learningexperience.I have delighted in presenting physiology to students,housestaff, and colleagues through this means.It is a worthwhileinvestment for any committed medical educator. ... Read more

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My writing is an emotional outlet for me, therfore my best poems are written when I feel the need to express myself in a creative way. Sometimes a phrase or subject comes to mind and the poem pours out of my thoughts as fast as I can write it down. Therefore the poetry in this book is an eclectic collection written about such diverse subjects as love, death, grief, divorce, faith, humor, and a variety of other subjects confronting us on a daily basis. Due to the array of subjects there is at least one poem in this book that anyone will find enjoyable or meaningful in their life.

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AMAZING
I received this book from Mr. Calloway and it is awesome. I have read it a dozen times and still continue to read it every night. No matter how I'm feeling I can always read one of his poems to make me feel better. There's something in there to relate to just about anything. I absolutely LOVE this book! ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Wildly absorbing, Murmur is a gorgeous genre-bender: detective novel, film noir and memoir (and the autopsy of all three), tricked out with bloody mirrors, blue murder, mutable coffins, loopy interrogations and a dead bombshell's shoes. This is one fabulous book! -- Rikki DucornetLaura Mullen floods the confines of the 'detective novel' with all possible events, all murderers and all murdered so that, at any point in the narrative, everything has happened and everyone has done it. Murmur is a further-fiction of displacement and testimony that calls us to the task of deciding not only whether we would or would not do a thing but also whether we even know the difference between the two. A gripping exploration into the brutality of our time that you will not soon forget. -- Renee Gladman ... Read more

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A one-of-a-kind narrative experience.
Award-winning author Laura Mullen presents Murmur, a murder-mystery told in a blend of prose and poetry, featuring a refractive perspective on space-time - amid the medley of infinite cosmic possibilities, the tale is told in such a manner that at one time or another everyone has committed the murder and everyone has been the victim. Merging the mystery, poetry, film noir, and fictional memoir genres, Murmur captivates the reader with its nuances of fallible human detail. "There's a woman lying naked on the blood-stained sand, in her abdomen the exact wound so vividly described as given to her ex-husband, metaphorically of course, by her request for money - specifically, for child support. 'She's sticking a knife in my gut,' he said, backing up and holding clenched fists to his stomach, 'and twisting it.'" A one-of-a-kind narrative experience. ... Read more

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...features a guide and accompanying audiocassett with heart sounds, heartmurmurs, and asuculatory characteristics of arrhyhmias. ... Read more

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Kathleen K. Harris is a Yankee native, born and raised on the Connecticut shoreline. Inspiration began as introspection for her as her personal journey of self-awareness moved her in tune with nature’s seasonal vibrations. Her career as a wife, single mother, and independent woman changed and caused her to seek out the happiness in daily living, conveyed in her passion to reach farther within the context of her own nurturing blooms. Currently, she resides in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with her daughter Amanda. Raspberry Murmurs is her first book of living poetry, dedicated to life and love, as perennial as grass. ... Read more

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Collection of heart sounds and murmurs digitally recorded from patients. Includes more than 800 auscultatory illustrations and three CD-ROMs. ... Read more

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It was a great gift....
I am a medical student and I bought this as a gift for a friend in nursing school.He found it a little intimidating at first, probably because he hadn't really covered much of what was on the CD but he has grown to love the set!It has helped him a great deal.It is a little pricey but it is a great gift idea for someone who is studying a health profession in your life.

Things you need to learn on your own.
After finishing medical school and never getting great teaching on the cardiac auscultatory exam, I purchased this book in hopes of learing a little more.

This book and 3 CD set have great auditory examples with discussion both verbal & written by Dr. Mason.Recommended for anyone who wants to improve their cardiac exam! ... Read more

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Wonderful poet
This is a collection of truly fabulous poems by a remarkable poet. The imagery is stupendous. She goes right to the heart of the human condition and lays it out. At other times she is whimsical...funny and political. Truly some of the best stuff that I have read. If you love poetry do not fail to miss this gifted writers work. I can't wait for her next edition.

My Very Own First Book
A simple girl who clings to literature in a complex world has arranged a collection of her early poems.Perhaps a morbid mix of joy and tragedy concocted in large melting pot called writing. The unimaginable is always imaginable when the truth is written; untainted and with passion. Her love for nature, art, and humankind is what flows dramatically inside of her like a cesspool of writings that is cultivated in this book. The unwritten writings of women in the past and present, and historical events of enslavement that stifled reading and writing is what motivates her to open up the creative floodgates and immerse the world in them. A typewriter, or perhaps quill, is her only weapon against such injustices. A lifetime of careers but only one true passion...and that is for life, its wisdom, irony, beauty, perfection, and tragedy on paper. Can one find humor in death and destruction or pain in love, nature, and happiness? The poems in this collection have that finite power.
Yes, this is my very first book that I have authored and decided to share with the world. I write as if my life depended on it. So hopefully if you choose to read my book, you will see what I see when writing. ... Read more

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Chickolet Pigolet rides the train to the city of Noraine for a long awaited beach vacation and finds himself in the middle of a mystery chasing bank robbers he encounters on the Oink Express. When his luggage is switched with the bank heist money, it becomes a question of who is chasing who?He helps bring the robbers to justice and wonders if he should have vacationed at Mudhole Lake near the farm in Chowdertown.Suggested age for readers: 8-12 ... Read more

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Chapters: Wake Turbulence, Law of the Wall, Reynolds Stresses, Clear-Air Turbulence, Metafluid Dynamics, Heart Murmur, Quantum Turbulence, Turbulence Kinetic Energy, Mixing Length Theory, Charles Speziale, Turbulence Modeling, Parviz Moin, Turbulator, Bulk Richardson Number, Kolmogorov Microscales, Code Saturne, Batchelor Scale, Vortex Stretching, Von Kármán Constant, Continuous Murmurs, Taylor Microscale, Preferential Concentration, Ellrod Index, Lagrangian Coherent Structure, Reynolds Decomposition, Landau-hopf Theory of Turbulence, Gollub-Swinney Circular Couette Experiment, Viscimetry, Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence, Center for Turbulence Research. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 105. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: In fluid dynamics, turbulence or turbulent flow is a fluid regime characterized by chaotic, stochastic property changes. This includes low momentum diffusion, high momentum convection, and rapid variation of pressure and velocity in space and time. Richard Feynman describes turbulence as "the most important unsolved problem of classical physics." Flow that is not turbulent is called laminar flow. While there is no theorem relating Reynolds number to turbulence, flows with high Reynolds numbers usually become turbulent, while those with low Reynolds numbers usually remain laminar. For pipe flow, a Reynolds number above about 4000 will most likely correspond to turbulent flow, while a Reynold's number below 2100 indicates laminar flow. The region in between (2100 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Family Practice News, published by Thomson Gale on September 15, 2006. The length of the article is 708 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Listen closely to distinguish between murmurs.(Clinical Rounds)
Author: Damian McNamara
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 15, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 36Issue: 18Page: 60(1)

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on November 19, 1998. The length of the article is 463 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Murmullos, arrullos y rumores: Volver, pero no devolver.(México)(TT: Murmurs, Lullabies, and Rumors; Return but not repay.)(TA: Mexico)
Author: Miguel Angel Rivera
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: November 19, 1998
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 45Issue: 2370Page: 84(1)

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Chapters: Category 5 Records, Roc-La-Familia, Spinart Records, Murmur, Tofu Records, Moonshine Music, Promot'elle, Spun Records. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Category 5 Records was an independent record label based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 2006, the label included eight different country music artists in its roster. The label was owned by Raymond Termini, and was disestablished in 2007. Category 5 Records was founded in January 2006 by its president, Raymond Termini. Tony Benken, formerly a promotion director of the Broken Bow Records label, was signed as vice president of promotion for Category 5. Carl Strube, formerly president of Critique Records, was the label's vice president and general manager. Portions of the label's proceeds were given to hurricane relief funds. The first act signed to Category 5 was Craig Hand, whose debut single "Direct Connect" was released in February 2006. Other acts signed to the label included Travis Tritt, Sammy Kershaw, Donovan Chapman, and Jerrod Niemann. Tritt and Kershaw had previously been on major labels, and Chapman was previously on Curb Records. Kershaw's 2006 album Honky Tonk Boots was the label's first full album release. Founder Raymond Termini, who was CEO of Haven Healthcare, was under investigation by the State of Connecticut. It is alleged that patients in Haven Healthcare facilities suffered hardships such as lack of heat and lack of care as a result of mismanagement by Haven Healthcare not paying their creditors. It is further alleged that Termini misappropriated corporate funds to fund Category 5 and to purchase a lakehouse.. He has subsequently pleaded guilty to two federal charges and faces sentencing of up to 12 years of prison and fines in excess of $500,000...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=13165089 ... Read more