Sentences with phrase «stethoscope auscultation»

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Fetal monitoring in labor can be done by the use of intermittent auscultation, which means listening with a stethoscope, fetoscope, or handheld doppler at various points in labor.

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

Every doctor who's ever examined you puts that ice - cold stethoscope on your triangle of auscultation, a quiet zone in between three major muscles near the base of your shoulder blade, where it's easier to hear your lungs.

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.

Heart disease and heart failure are best diagnosed with a thorough veterinary exam to include auscultation, or listening to the dog's heart with a stethoscope.

Auscultation of the chest with a stethoscope, in order to help exclude the concurrent presence of other causes of respiratory difficulty.

Auscultation or listening to the heart with a stethoscope is the first step in diagnosing heart disease.

The best screening test to detect CVD in your dog is listening with a stethoscope by your veterinarian (auscultation) once per year.

The recommended health screenings for Cavaliers are annual auscultations (listening to the heart with a stethoscope) by board certified cardiologists and doppler (Echocardiogram) if there is a question on auscultation.

Auscultation is when your veterinarian uses a stethoscope to listen to the sounds the heart makes while working.

The advantage of auscultation is that the tool (stethoscope) is available to anyone and is relatively inexpensive.

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.

All veterinarians are trained in auscultation however Cardiologists have special training that allow them a greater understanding of what is heard by stethoscope.

Complete medical history and physical examination including lung auscultation (stethoscope examination)

If a murmur is detected through auscultation (listening with a stethoscope), additional diagnostic tests are available and may be recommended.

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

Auscultation: a stethoscope is used to identify murmurs, their location, intensity and any abnormal heart rhythm (arrhythmia).

Listening to the heart and lungs with a stethoscope (auscultation): Are there unusual breath sounds, a heart murmur, or a heart rhythm abnormality?