auscultation


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Words related to auscultation

listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope)

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CONCLUSION: Detection of fetal distress by intermittent auscultation of fetal heart is not inferior to more invasive and expensive techniques of electronic fetal heart rate monitoring.
The study effectively seals the fate of any legal case in which EFM was not used in labor, despite the fact that the best available evidence shows no significant difference in perinatal morbidity and mortality between EFM and other standardized methods of intrapartum fetal monitoring, such as intermittent auscultation.
This simple modification allows both lung fields and the heart to be monitored during the procedure by auscultation of a single ear-piece without disturbing the surgical field.
Immediately after early amniotomy on diagnosis of labor, 8628 eligible women were randomized to receive either 20 minutes of external fetal monitoring or usual care (intermittent auscultation only).
On physical examination, her respiratory rate was 28 per min with fine bilateral crackles at lung auscultation. An otoscopic exam showed bilateral otitis.
29 July 2019 - Georgia, US-based anatomical and biological education company 3B Scientific has acquired Virginia, US-based auscultation simulation products provider Excellus Technologies, Inc.
3B Scientific reported on Wednesday that it has completed the acquisition of Excellus Technologies Inc, dba Cardionics, a provider of auscultation simulation products.
We also compared the efficacy of auscultation for confirmation of DLT position.The outcomes studied were insertion time, the frequency of DLT malposition (as seen by bronchoscopy), tube migration after positioning, intra-operative hypoxia and hypercapnia.
In a recent letter to the editor on the role of auscultation and echocardiography, "Point-of-care ultrasound: It's no replacement for the stethoscope" (J Fam Pract.
Throughout the study, we remain consistent on two aspects- Firstly, to rule out other systemic involvement by the help of laboratory examinations and clinical findings, Secondly on auscultation findings of lungs.
This can be studied objectively by using simple noninvasive procedures such as cervical auscultation. Cervical auscultation is a method of measuring swallow sound using a listening device.