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How do you listen to the Heart Beat?
Place a stethoscope on your chest where you can feel the heart beat and you will hear it.
How do you count ventricular rate of heart?
Place the stethoscope over the heart (left side of the chest) and count the heart beat for a full minute.
What is a sentence with the word stethoscope?
The doctor used a stethoscope to listen to my heartbeat during the examination.
What is a piece of medical equipment used to listen to your chest it has to end with scope?
stethoscope
What is the definition of stethoscope?
An instrument used in auscultation for examining the organs of the chest, as the heart and lungs, by conveying to the ear of the examiner the sounds produced in the thorax., To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.
How does a stethoscope transmit sound?
When a doctor or nurse places a stethoscope diaphragm on a patient's chest, sound waves traveling through the patient's body cause the flat surface of the diaphragm to vibrate.When a doctor or nurse places a stethoscope diaphragm on a patient's chest, sound waves traveling through the patient's body cause the flat surface of the diaphragm to vibrate.
Where would you place your stethoscope to hear the apical heartbeat?
Normally you put the stethoscope in the fifth intercostal space, in the mid clavicle line. Normally you can see the apical impulse. Some times it is shifted to wards lefts side. In thick and obese patients you locate the area, where the heart sound in most prominent in the above stated area. The interpretation of the auscultation may be difficult in such patients.
What was the first stethoscope made of?
Back in the day there was a male doctor who was too embarrassed to put his ear to a lady's chest to check her heartbeat, so he used a small tube instead. Then it caught on and lots of doctors were using it. Then it got improved and things like the metal part and the ear pieces were used. The translation of stethoscope in Greek is actually "chest examination".
Where is the stethoscope placed when taking an apical pulse?
The pulse taken at the apex of the heart using a stethoscope is called an apical pulse.
What is the use of the stethoscope?
A stethoscope is put against the chest and is used to monitor heart rate and breathing. It is also used to listen to certain body sounds
How do you hear a horse's heart beat?
Stick your head on his chest :) A human stethoscope will work, so will a childs plastic one, at worst in an emergency use a plastic or glass cup, place the mouth on his chest near his heart and place your ear on the bottom - like when you used to try and listen through walls when you were a kid. Or take his pulse :)
Why did Rene LAennec invents the stethoscope what is the reason behind it?
rene laennec created the stethoscope because he needed it to listen to sounds made in the heart. he had a female patient and put one end of the stethoscope on her breasts and the other on his ear to hear the sounds
