The five auscultatory areas are not sitting on top of their valves — they are the spots on the chest wall where each valve’s sound arrives most clearly. Click a post to learn where it is and what lives there, then take the challenge. Then enter a real heart rate and blood pressure for any age group and decide the only thing that matters at the bedside: monitor, reassess, or call.
You are facing the patient, so the patient’s right is on your left. Explore names each post. Find it gives you a clinical reason to listen and asks you to place the stethoscope.
auscultatory postangle of Louis — count ribs from heremidclavicular line
All People Enjoy Time Magazine — Aortic, Pulmonic, Erb’s, Tricuspid, Mitral. Move base to apex or apex to base, but use the same order every time, and slide the stethoscope in small steps rather than jumping, so a murmur living between two named posts is not missed.
Enter what you actually measured. The bench interprets it against the expected range for that age group, calculates pulse pressure, and tells you what to do next.
Context that changes the reading
Orthostatic vital signs are a cardiovascular test, not a courtesy. Supine at least 5 minutes, then sitting, then standing at 1 minute and 3 minutes. Stay with the patient.
Supine, after 5 minutes
Standing, at 1 to 3 minutes
Pick a listening postOr switch to the vitals bench and enter a set of numbers.