Le Neck Pocket Heart Sounds Project
Take advantage of the multimedia capabilities of your PDA. All PocketPCs and certain Palm devices can play high quality digital audio files.
Having trouble getting your students good cases of murmurs to hear? Or are your students frustrated that they don't quite know what they are listening for? This project enables you to use digital sound files as a teaching aid in chest auscultation.
Premise
Providing a case library of high fidelity, classical examples of various heart sounds, their anomalies and murmurs. These can be listened to by individuals or groups, as often as they like and at a volume that makes it easy to distinguish subtle differences.
Sound library
We have the following examples in our current library of examples:
 | Ejection systolic murmur |
| Pansystolic murmur |
| Split S1 |
| Split S2 - benign |
| Split S2 - fixed |
| Opening snap |
| Mitral regurgitation rumble |
More will be added as they become available.
Quiz mode
Want to test yourself? Try Le Neck Pocket in quiz mode - a random example of a heart sound will be played for you - try to guess what it is.
Requirements
| PDA that can play WAV or MP3 sound files |
| Portable headphones |
Future development
We are working on providing a high quality recording module to work with electronic stethoscopes so that you can record your own examples - maybe you can contribute to our case library.