Remember from the heart sounds section that the delay in aortic ... The murmur is a high-pitched, crescendo-decrescendo, mid-systolic murmur heard best at the left lower sternal border.

We present a new method to record and display heart sounds that uses a hand-held computer and stethoscopic recording device. It allows for rapid spectral and waveform displays of murmurs and ...

A murmur is either systolic, diastolic or continuous throughout systole and diastole. Remember that systole occurs between the S1 and S2 heart sounds, whereas diastole occurs between S2 and S1.