The Valsalva maneuver is used during dynamic auscultation to help distinguish different cardiac conditions. The most useful situation is to bring about the murmur of hypertrophic obstructive ...

Dynamic auscultation refers to using maneuvers to alter hemodynamic parameters during cardiac auscultation in order to diagnose the etiology of a heart sound or murmur. The Valsalva maneuver is ...

(The most common way for doctors to elicit a murmur is the "Valsalva" maneuver, in which patients are asked to breathe out ...