Sentences with phrase «auscultation as»

As a result of these study findings, the IWCA recommended that CHIC (Canine Health Information Center) require an annual EKG and auscultation as the Irish Wolfhound cardiac screening test instead of the previously - required echocardiogram.

Not exact matches

Further, auscultation, even with a Doppler, is easily done in such a way as NOT to hear decelerations.

You might be if you thought that a fetal heart rate tracing supplied the same information as intermittent auscultation (listening) with a doppler.

Basically, intermittent auscultation is checking the baby's heartbeat every so often through a fetal stethoscope, as opposed to through an electronic fetal monitor.

He argues that «most of the fetuses identified as being at risk of hypoxia are not» and highlights a review of trial data for nearly 37,000 women that found no difference in perinatal mortality between labours with electronic fetal monitoring versus intermittent auscultation.

This explains the interstitial pulmonary pattern on radiographs, as well as the wheezes and crackles audible on pulmonary auscultation.

Radiographic results can be used in conjunction with other diagnostic tools, such as auscultation and echocardiogram (ECHO), to confirm if a dog is developing heart disease and if so, if the dog is at the preclinical stage (eg, B1 or B2) or has progressed into heart failure.

Auscultation of the lungs is used to detect the presence of normal bronchovesicular sounds or abnormal lung sounds, such as crackles and wheezes.

Meticulous auscultation will allow detection of cardiac disease signs such as a murmur, arrhythmia, pulse deficit or signs of reduced cardiac output such as pale mucous membranes.

A valuable examination would be an auscultation of Shelby's chest by your Veterinarian with a stethoscope, but an x-ray would also be valuable as the opacity of the lungs, size of the heart, any fluid and other anomalies would be seen easier; if a heart condition is then suspected, echocardiography (ultrasound of the heart) would be a useful next step.

During auscultation, a slow regular rhythm was detected with heart rate of 20 bpm classified as ventricular escape rhythm during the normal ECG.

This condition can usually present itself as a murmur heard by auscultation with a stethoscope within the first year of a dog's life.

In this investigation 353 CKCS were selected as a sample of the population and 150 were examined by auscultation for heart murmurs when they reached the age of six years in 2007 and 2009.

However, in the breeding program against MMVD, auscultation of mitral systolic heart murmur is the screening method used for the disease, as other causes for this form of murmur, in middle age or older CKCS, are extremely rare [7].

Other conditions such as ventricular septal defects (also known as a «hole in the heart») can also cause murmurs that can be identified on auscultation.

«The trial judge's central findings that the prolonged partial asphyxia occurred between 6:00 and 7:30 and that the nurses would have detected it had they auscultated the fetal heart as required at 6:30 and 7:00 p.m. rest on a conclusion that the prolonged partial asphyxia that occurred before 9 p.m. was detectable by intermittent auscultation every half hour.

Made skilled nursing observations of patient health status by monitoring and documenting such things as vital signs, heart and lung auscultation, blood and urine laboratory values, intake and output, level of consciousness, etc..