Heart sounds

Heart and Lung Sounds Assessments The knowledge of the normal heart sound, S1 then S2, will aid in the identification of the abnormal heart sounds as the changes of loudness of S1 or the “lub” in “lub-dup” may signify heart pathology. “The second heart sound has been called the key to heart disease” (Shindler, 2007). It is widely transmitted, usually audible, sharper and shorter than S1, and easily heard. Ventricular gallop or S3 is normal in children but not in older populations as it may be associated with heart failure (Huffman, 2012). An S3 is normally a silent event that 's associated with volume or ventricular filling. Heard immediately after S2, an easy way to remember is by pronouncing the word “Kentucky”: S1 is “ken,” S2 is “tuck,”…

Huck shows how he has a sound heart and what his conscience is trying to say throughout the characters and actions. Huck doesn’t listen to Pap about leaving school and still gets an education. Pap has a talk with Huck. “And looky here-you drop that school, you hear?...Your mother couldn’t read and she couldn’t write. None of the family couldn’t, before they died” (Twain 29). Pap tells Huck that nobody in the family got an education. He doesn’t think going to school will help Huck in any way. Pap…

Low pitched sound (lub) that occur when the atrioventricular valve closes. It is longer than the S2 sound and has less intensity than the S2 sound in the aortic and pulmonic. However, it is louder than or equal to the S2 sound in the tricuspid and mitral. The S2 (dub) sound occurs as the semilunar valves close and has a higher pitch than the S1 sound, this sound is louder in the aortic and pulmonic, but has less intensity or is equal to the S1 sound in the tricuspid and mitral. The S3 sound…

According to Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a book of his where a sound heart meets a deformed a conscience. There is an ongoing debate, however, on where most of the examples of each of these take place. Many scholars are arguing that the examples of Huck Finn’s sound heart occur on the river while the examples of his deformed conscience occur on land. Those scholars are incorrect. The examples of Huck’s sound heart and the examples of his deformed conscience are not limited…

miners trapped 1,500 feet underground by a massive cave-in at the Crandall Canyon coal mine in Utah, a catastrophic collapse” (25). The repetition of the ‘c’ sounds add a percussive effect, building tension and accentuating the solemnity of the situation. Later on, Chamber Three is introduced comparing the murmurs of the heart to the sounds of classical music. As the passage continues, the diction conveys a musical tone, taking on a rhythm dictated by alliteration; “They learn to listen for…

Stress and Anxiety Created by Sound of the Lack of Sound in No Country for Old Men No Country for Old Men’s sound design enhances the theme of hunter vs. hunted by creating anxiety, suspense and many other emotions. Dialog in a move is an important factor for themes. With certain dialog one can tell where a person live, what personality they have and what hobbies they may partake in. In No Country for Old Men two phrases in the first half hour of the movie show you that Anton Chigure and…

In this passage, Julian Henriques, the author of Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing, main idea was to open the reader’s mind to the fact that there are several different forms of sound that can be taken into different contexts. He describes how sound effects not only your auditory system, but the other senses as well. Your body becomes a part of the sound such as you can feel the vibrations within your cells from the music or sound. No matter what you…

The Sound of Life Music: Luxury or Necessity? The world has transformed to adapt to new technologies into a place where humans, the organic beings are plugged into inorganic or mechanical machines at almost any given point in the day. The recent developments of television, cellular devices, and media players makes everyone a techno-wizard in some regard. One of the categories electrical equipment can be categorized into is that of music. Music can be listened to in person at concerts or other…

Sound and image work coincidently to create a powerful experience for the audience. In film, everything relates back to the diegesis, particularly what filmmakers want to be recounted, and how it appears to viewers (Chion, 1994). After all, it is the narrative that catches any one person’s attention and pulls them into a world of their own interpretation. When looking at the relationship between sound and image, the diegetic and non-diegetic sounds are responsible for creating realistic…

Ultrasound Technicians, also known as diagnostic medical sonographers, use equipment that makes sound waves to produce or record a picture of the internal organs. Sonography is an important medical field because it allows technicians and physicians to see and diagnose a patient’s condition in a minimally intrusive way. What once may have required exploratory surgery now is a quick outpatient procedure with minimal patient discomfort. Ultrasound works by using a high rate of sound waves and…