You always examine your patients on auscultation by listening in the four classic acoustic areas. In our patient, we are going to focus on two areas and we shall begin at the upper left sternal edge. We'll listen together using the diaphragm of the stethoscope and we shall use the cotton swab to identify systole by placing it on the carotid vessel. Let us listen together. [cut-away]
Choose the best description of the systolic murmur: