What’s on the Heart Sounds at the Bedside poster
A 5-row table: Area · Position · Best heard.
Five listening areas. Sounds come from valves closing, not opening.
- Aortic — 2nd space, right sternal — S2 loudest
- Pulmonary — 2nd space, left sternal — S2 splitting
- Erb's point — 3rd space, left sternal — Both sounds
- Tricuspid — 4th space, left sternal — S1 loudest
- Mitral or apex — 5th space, midclavicular — S1 loudest
Educational reference. S1 is the AV valves closing, S2 the semilunar valves. Report a newly noticed murmur rather than interpreting it.
Questions about the Heart Sounds at the Bedside poster
- What’s on the Heart Sounds at the Bedside poster?
- A 5-row table: Area · Position · Best heard. Five listening areas. Sounds come from valves closing, not opening. Aortic — 2nd space, right sternal — S2 loudest; Pulmonary — 2nd space, left sternal — S2 splitting; Erb's point — 3rd space, left sternal — Both sounds; Tricuspid — 4th space, left sternal — S1 loudest; Mitral or apex — 5th space, midclavicular — S1 loudest. Educational reference. S1 is the AV valves closing, S2 the semilunar valves. Report a newly noticed murmur rather than interpreting it.
- Who is the Heart Sounds at the Bedside poster for?
- Heart Sounds at the Bedside belongs to the Nursing section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning assessment can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Heart Sounds at the Bedside poster?
- You are not diagnosing the murmur — you are noticing that it is new. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Heart Sounds at the Bedside belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Heart Sounds at the Bedside?
- The ABCDE Approach, Abdominal Assessment and Breath Sounds sit alongside Heart Sounds at the Bedside in the Nursing section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.The ABCDE ApproachAbdominal AssessmentBreath Sounds
- Is the Heart Sounds at the Bedside poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Heart Sounds at the Bedside downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Nursing section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Heart Sounds at the Bedside poster print at?
- Heart Sounds at the Bedside is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Heart Sounds at the Bedside loses nothing.Printing guide
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