The doctor places the tip of the stethoscope over the patient’s chest and listen through headphones
What is a stethoscope?

If you know how to interpret many of the sounds that occur within the chest reveals the physical state of a person, because there are some diseases that produce distinctive sounds.

Good to hear these sounds, the doctor uses a device called a stethoscope conducts sound (this instrument is also used to examine other body parts).

The examination by the stethoscope is what is called auscultation. The doctor places the tip of the instrument, consisting of a sounding board on the patient’s chest and listening through headphones. If you are examining the lungs, he hears is the passage of air through the ducts, which in a healthy person looks like a roar as it passes through the bronchi and a gentle breeze in the case of the bronchioles. The stethoscope anomalies recorded as different distinctive sounds: whistles, crackles or changes in intensity. Continue Reading

From now on, to handle will not need a stethoscope in their ears or ponernoslo. And all they need to change hand have a computer that has Bluetooth.

We are talking about the new Littmann Electronic Stethoscope, which is simply an electronic stethoscope. It was developed by 3M, more specifically its Division 3M Health Care, and we can order it from their website if we are professionals in the world of medicine and do not mind paying the high price. Continue Reading

Even the medical instruments are in full technological upgrade, thus the stethoscope that we all know will be forgotten in about a couple of years because it is neither necessary for the doctor are positioned on the ear, so if you to be necessary is to be near a computer that has Bluetooth connectivity, this is the case of the Littmann Electronic Stethoscope, an electronic stethoscope which has been developed by 3M Health Care. Continue Reading

Apple’s portable player will become standard equipment on the Ohio State University medical students. They will use the devices to watch videos of medical procedures and reviewing images of the body and human organs.

Students with iPods can also show patients pictures to help identify patients who are taking medications before administering new. Continue Reading