Stethoscopes and Health Care–Associated Infection

Stethoscopes: a potential vector of infection?

STUDY OBJECTIVES To survey emergency care providers about their stethoscope-cleaning measures and to determine the correlation between these measures and the extent of Staphylococcus carriage. DESIGN Prospective cross-sectional analysis. SETTING University-affiliated community hospital ED. PARTICIPANTS One hundred fifty health care providers, comprising emergency medicine house staff and ...

Stethoscopes as possible vectors of infection by staphylococci.

Carrying Stethoscopes

are shared by many of us, against the indecent practice of hanging one's stethoscope round the neck like a hangman's noose. This bad practice has become much in vogue during the last few years and it is a very common sight to find doctors riding a tram or a bus or going by a rickshaw or walking on the streets with their stethoscopes hanging round the neck. It may be argued to be a matter of con...

acute and chronic maxillary sinusitis (nonodontogenic infection)

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Of White Coats and Stethoscopes

A WHITE COAT. THE COUNTRY DOCTOR’S BLACK BAG. A STETHOSCOPE. A snake-entwined staff. The oath of Hippocrates. The clinical acumen of Osler and the compassionate service of Schweitzer. These are the symbols and personifications of our chosen profession. One symbol of medicine since antiquity has been the Aesculapian staff. A glance through this journal will uncover the staff in the American Medi...