• Simulated Sounds
• Real Sounds
• View & Hear One Sound Part at a time
• Phonocardiogram and ECG Display
• Variable Heart Rate
• Measure Timing Intervals
• Compare Sounds, i.e., Split S2 vs. S3
• Add Breath Sounds to any Heart Sound
• Move Murmurs, Clicks or Snaps
• Adjust Murmur Frequencies
• Animations (approximaely 70)
• Images and Slides
• Preprogram Instructor's Lecture
• Give a Test
• Record Patient's Sound
• Record Patient's ECG and Pulse
• Listen with HeartMan Infrared Headphones
• Program Guide displayed on-screen and in hard copy form
• Testing with or without display
• Network version for Student Use
• English or Spanish version

The CardioSim is an unparalleled system for teaching heart sounds.  It allows complete control over heart rate (50-240 bpm).  Individual clicks, snaps,knocks, rubs or murmurs can be added or removed to allow the student to learn every element of a sound - one part at a time.  For example, if listening to mitral stenosis, initially the student hears just the first and second heart sound. Then an opening snap is added.  Once this is learned, a middiastolic murmur is added followed by presystolic accentuation.If regurgitation is desired, a blowing holosystolic murmur is added.  

By adding and taking out murmurs, clicks or other sounds, the student is able to learn one part of the sound complex at a time.  As a result, they learn quickly and retain more.   Repetitive listening to murmurs is routine for more effective retention.

For a short demonstration, please review the VIDEO on the CardioSim VII (see above in red for download). The video reviews mitral stenosis, a split second heart sound with respiration and mitral valve prolapse. There is also physician reviews from Richard Smalling, M.D., Cardiologist, University of Texas School of Medicine, Houston, Texas, Richard Golinko, M.D., Pediatric Cardiologist, Mt. Sinai Medical School, New York City and William Nelson, M.D., Cardiologist, St. Joseph Hospital, Denver, Colorado.

With the CardioSim, there are a variety of sounds presented just for timing.  For example, in learning the splitting of the second sound, the student first listens to S1 and A2.  He/she then adds P2 at different time intervals.  Respiration can also be added to show its effect on the splitting.  
 
If listening to mitral valve prolapse, the click can be moved from midsystole to late systole to show the effect of squatting.  
 
Every sound is displayed as a phonocardiogram on a monitor simultaneously with an ECG.  A program guide is supplied on the computer screen so the description of the sound is presented simultaneously with sound.
 
Listening is done with the built-in low frequency speaker or, if desired, with the Cardionics Infrared Sound System.
 
For giving a lecture, the instructor can preprogram a lecture so that he/she need only press one key to advance from one sound to the next. The system allows for a number of different lectures for each instructor. The CardioSim is for use on a Windows platform.  As such, Microsoft Power Point can be used to enhance a presentation and there are a number of images and animations that are supplied and can be added to the lecture in any sequence desired.  
 
The display is 17" LCD color flat screen monitor.  A large screen projector can be connected easily for group presentations.  The system is sold complete and ready to use.  It is easy to use for both student and instructor.  A trained Cardionics representative always comes in for a training session.  
 
One of the new, interesting features of the CardioSim is the addition of images and animations.  There are over 125.  For example, in studying mitral stenosis, the student can view a calcified mitral valve or watch an animation of mitral stenosis in a beating heart.  Teaches arrhythmia recognition, all features of cardiac auscultation including cineangiography, EKG, patient auscultation - too many features to list - give us a call today to arrange a demonstration.

In use by over 100 medical schools and teaching hospitals in the US, the CardioSim offers an unparalleled, effective means of teaching cardiac auscultation.