Sentences with phrase «held ultrasound devices»
Compared with expensive, bulky, ultrasound machines of the past, the authors say that «Hand - held ultrasound devices introduced an alternative concept of relatively inexpensive, easy - to - use machines which could generate images interpretable by a wider spectrum of clinicians at the point of care.
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A fetal doppler is a hand - held, ultrasound device used by some practitioners to hear your baby's heart beat at prenatal appointments.
An editorial in this month's edition of Global Heart (the journal of the World Heart Federation) asks «are we living in the final days of the stethoscope» — a question being asked due to the rapid advent of point - of - care ultrasound devices, that are becoming increasingly accurate, smaller to the point of being hand - held and less expensive as the years roll by.
With intermittent auscultation, the care provider listens to the baby's heart rate for about 60 seconds using a fetal stethoscope (fetoscope or Pinard) or a hand - held Doppler ultrasound device.
The ultrasound on a smartphone could indeed help save millions of lives worldwide by diagnosing diseases through this small, affordable hand - held device.