In 1824, The London Times reported: “A wonderful instrument called the Stethoscope .. . is now in complete vogue at Paris. It is merely a hollow wooden tube, about a foot in length . .. One end is applied to the breast of the patient. The other to the ear of the physician, and according to the different sounds, harsh, hollow, soft, loud etc., he judges of the state of the disease.” It had been ...

Leaks in the enclosed acoustical system of the stethoscope reduce its efficiency and can greatly impair the physician's ability to detect the faint murmurs of early valvular heart disease. The results of this study demonstrate a high degree of variability in size and configuration of the external auditory meatus among different individuals. It appears probable that both excessive leaks and also...

Abstract Background Although the stethoscope is used for auscultation in diagnosis of valvular heart disease more than 200 years, its diagnostic accuracy limited and highly dependent on clinical expertise acoustic range human ear. Purpose To develop an electronic stethoscope, based artificial intelligence (AI), aortic stenosis (AS). Methods We developed (VoqxTM, Sanolla) with subsonic capabilit...

Let’s make it clear: STH is not old-fashioned, CSAVE is not Jurassic, and the stethoscope is not a piece that is missing from the museum. Being a vassal of sovereign clinics, the members of STH believe in the permanence of the stethoscope and in the strong integrating power of the starting point of CSAVE, with the other findings from the multisensorial physical examination, scientific concepts ...

INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of Staphylococcus-contaminated stethoscopes belonging to emergency department (ED) staff and to identify the proportion of these that were Staphylococcus aureus or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). METHODS We conducted a prospective observational cohort study of bacterial cultures from 100 ED staff memb...