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1) Inspect the stethoscope for quality and damage. The best stethoscopes have a tube for each ear piece rather than a single tube. Also, the best tubing is thick, short, and relatively stiff, with a small bore. Also, make sure that tubing is free of leaks.
2) find relatively quit area to ensure that the body sounds are not overpowered
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3) Insert each of the two ear pieces into your ears. Be sure that the ear pieces fit snugly and have a good seal to keep out ambient noise. The earpieces can also be tilted slightly forward on some stethoscopes to ensure a better fit
4) Use the stethoscope on bare skin to avoid picking up the sound of rustling fabric and wet the skin with warm water to avoid sound pollution from the small hairs on the skin.
- In cold weather, warm up the stethoscope, or the first sound you will hear is a screech from your poor victim.
- 5) Hold the round part (the chest piece) up to the person's chest or heart. You should hear a steady lub-dub, lub-dub sound.
- Different heart sounds are best heard at different areas of a person's chest. Also, hearts sounds differ depending on the patient's position: i.e., sitting, standing, lying on one's side, etc.
- 6) The sound of beating travels through the tube to your ears. The sound depends on whether you are using the bell or the diaphragm and also on the pressure you put on the chest piece.
- Breathing is best heard with the diaphragm, or flat side of the stethoscope.
- The diaphragm is used to listen to high pitch sound while the bell is used to listen to low pitch sounds. However, if you put pressure on the bell, it will pick up higher pitch sounds.
- 7) The sound of beating travels through the tube to your ears. The sound depends on whether you are using the bell or the diaphragm and also on the pressure you put on the chest piece.
- Breathing is best heard with the diaphragm, or flat side of the stethoscope.
- The diaphragm is used to listen to high pitch sound while the bell is used to listen to low pitch sounds. However, if you put pressure on the bell, it will pick up higher pitch sounds.
What else can I help you with?
How do you perform auscultation?
To perform auscultation, place a stethoscope on the skin to listen to sounds produced by the body, such as the heart, lungs, or intestines. Make sure the area is quiet, and be sure to listen for the specific sounds associated with each body system. Adjust the pressure of the stethoscope as needed to clearly hear the sounds.
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.
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 hear your own heart beat?
Take a stethoscope and place it on your heart.
Where do you place a stethoscope on female chest?
To place a stethoscope on a female chest, position the diaphragm over the left and right sides of the chest, typically at the 2nd intercostal space (just below the collarbone) to listen to heart sounds. You can also place it at the apex of the heart, located around the 5th intercostal space at the midclavicular line. Ensure the stethoscope is placed directly on the skin for optimal sound transmission.
What locations would you place your stethoscope to hear each of the heart valves at the five precordial landmarks?
To assess the heart valves using a stethoscope at the five precordial landmarks, you would place it at the following locations: the aortic valve is best heard at the right second intercostal space, the pulmonic valve at the left second intercostal space, the tricuspid valve at the left fourth intercostal space near the sternum, the mitral valve at the left fifth intercostal space in the midclavicular line, and the Erb's point (for additional heart sounds) at the left third intercostal space. These placements correspond to the anatomical positions of the valves and facilitate optimal auscultation.
When auscultating the blood pressure in a patient's upper extremity you should place the diaphragm of the stethoscope over what artery?
Brachial artery
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.
How pulse beat brought about?
In medicine, one's pulse represents the tactile arterial palpation of the heartbeat by trained fingertips. The pulse may be palpated in any place that allows an artery to be compressed against a bone, such as at the neck (carotid artery), at the wrist (radial artery), behind theknee (popliteal artery), on the inside of the elbow (brachial artery), and near the ankle joint(posterior tibial artery). The pulse can also be measured by listening to the heart beat directly (auscultation), traditionally using a stethoscope.
Where do you put a stethescope to listen to the stenotic mitral valve?
Place the stethoscope on the left side of the chest, over the apex of the heart, to listen to the stenotic mitral valve. The characteristic murmur of mitral stenosis is usually best heard with the bell of the stethoscope in the left lateral decubitus position.
Where would you place the stethoscope for the closure of the tricuspid valve?
In the forth intercostal space, right to the sternum, probably.
How do you declare someone mentally incompetent in Virginia?
You don't- unless you are a judge. A judge will order a medical examination, or take note of an examination that has already taken place. After the examination the judge holds a hearing, examines evidence, and makes a declaration.
