INTRODUCTION This study aimed to assess the impact of a stethoscope disinfection sensitization campaign among doctors and nurses in a Nigerian teaching hospital. METHODOLOGY The design was a before-and-after study. Pre-program measurements were used to provide a baseline against which the post-program results were compared. Interventions that promoted compliance with stethoscope disinfection ...

BACKGROUND Ankle-brachial index (ABI) is an excellent method for the diagnosis of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) when it is performed with Doppler. However, this device is not always available for primary care physicians. The ABI measured with stethoscope is an easy alternative approach, but have not been proved to be useful. OBJECTIVE To assess the accuracy of the ABI measured using a ste...

Physical cardiovascular examination, particularly cardiac auscultation, is one of the most difficult clinical skills for students during their medical training. Studies suggest that the use of technologies such as digital stethoscope increase the accuracy of clinical examination, however, its impact on the teaching of cardiac auscultation for undergraduate students of medicine is not known. The...

To the Editor: Contamination of stethoscopes by skin flora has been described previously. 1 The predominant organisms recovered from stethoscope diaphragms were Staphylococcus epider-midis and Staphylococcus aureus. Previous studies documented the status of contamination of the stethoscope diaphragm with microorganisms only once, and no repeat sampling was performed. 1 The dynamic of contaminat...

Textbooks, clinicians, and medical teachers differ as to whether the stethoscope bell or diaphragm should be used for auscultating respiratory sounds at the chest wall. Logic and our results suggest that stethoscope diaphragms are more appropriate.

According to estimations made by World Health Organization, heart disease is the largest cause of mortality throughout globe, and it safe assume that diagnosing diseases in their earliest stages very essential. Diagnosis cardiovascular may be carried out detection interference cardiac signals, one which called phonocardiography, can accomplished a number various ways. Using phonocardiogram (PCG...

The Journal of Physician Assistant Education | 2007 Vol 18 No 2 INTRODUCTION The stethoscope is a popular instrument used by health care providers to evaluate the lung, heart, and abdominal sounds of their patients. Although clinicians are instructed about microbiology and the importance of maintaining clean medical instruments, the stethoscope may not be thought of as a potential source of nos...