Most physicians learn about the continuous murmur due to a venous hum in the neck in the following context. The physician has been in the process of learning that all heart murmurs are not abnormal, ...

When a doctor listens to the heart of a person with a heart murmur, they may hear a whooshing, swishing, humming, or rasping sound. This is due to rapid, turbulent blood flow through the heart.

THE presence of a continuous murmur heard in the anterior neck owing to blood flowing in the jugular veins has been well recognized for more than a hundred years. 1 ...