Stethoscope

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A heart murmur is when you hear a heartbeat that is not a continuous rhythm of beat, but instead you hear whooshing and swishing. This is caused by unstable blood in or near your heart. Your doctor can hear these sounds by using a stethoscope. You can get a heart murmur at birth or it can develop later in life. A heart murmur is not a disease but can affect the cardiovascular system which may lead to heart problems. Anyone from infant to adults can have a heart murmur. Infants and children may…

Procedure-blood pressure manual. Supplies needed: blood pressure cuff, sphygmomanometer and stethoscope 1. Position patient in conformable position with arm exposed, level with heart, palm up 2. Place appropriate size cuff 1 inch above the antecubital fossa. Cuff should be smooth, snug and attached to sphygmomanometer. 3. Place bell of stethoscope over the brachial artery and listen for pulse 4. Inflate cuff until you no longer hear pulse while watching sphygmomanometer…

It is a device which consists of an inflatable cuff and pressure monitor. Basically sphygmomanometers are of two types. They are Manual and Digital . MANUAL SPHYGMOMANOMETER is of two types - (Used in conjunction with stethoscope) Aneroid: - It is a mechanical device with a dial and are common in use which require calibration . Mercury: - these are considered to be the gold standard and are measured by the height of the mercury column which increases with the pressure…

Physiology Murmurs are the product of intense blood flow across inflexible, calcified valves; faulty valves that permit reverse blood flow (regurgitation); faulty (deviant openings) in the septum, aorta, or pulmonary artery; or abnormally high velocity of blood flow through a normal structure. Supposedly blood generally flows soundlessly through the heart; yet, these conditions can generate tumultuous blood flow resulting in auscultation of swooshing or gusty sound over the precordium (Weber &…

It is easy to silently do the head to toe and check each part of the body without warning the patient that you are about to listen to their chest with your stethoscope, move their gown, move the bed, etc. • What steps can you take to make the improvements you have identified? What resources and practices will enable you to succeed in those areas? To improve the patient’s understanding of what is going on, I…

sonogram machines are the new “stethoscope”. With the help of these sonogram machines, one can not only auscultate the various body parts but can also look and can see the various pressures within the body. This is a unique piece of equipment, which can give health care providers more information, and hopefully a better treatment plan for their patients, which can lead to a faster recovery. Even though these bedside sonograms are a great tool to have, in my opinion, a stethoscope is way more…

Data for this study were derived from an AAOMS Outcomes Assessment Project study of anesthesia and third molar extractions in private practice oral and maxillofacial surgery offices. A randomly selected sample of 300 OMS were instructed to enter data on all eligible patients they treated during a one month period. This study has two study samples, a surgeon sample and subject sample. The surgeon sample was composed of OMSs randomly selected from the population of AAOMS members between June, 2011…

as the age of seven I knew I wanted to be a Pediatric Cardiologist, though at the time I used to call it a “baby heart doctor”. Unlike normal little girls playing with Barbie’s or teddy bears, I was running around the house with my dollar store stethoscope trying to find anything with a heartbeat. When my sister was born, she was born with a major hole in her heart, undergoing extensive surgeries to repair her heart. When my sister was old enough to understand it all she told my mom she wanted…

In addition, a doctor may suspect mitral valve prolapse after listening to someone's heart with a stethoscope because of the “click” sound that the abnormal movement of the mitral valve can make. Mitral valve prolapse causes no problems for most people, so treatment is usually not…