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The oesophageal and precordial stethoscope transducer as a monitoring and teaching aid. 1994

C N Barthram, and L Taylor

Department of Anaesthesia, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee.

We describe a low cost, easy to construct monitoring and teaching aid for the oesophageal and precordial stethoscopes. It is constructed from two readily available 'state of the art' integrated circuits. The aid allows more than one observer simultaneously to hear heart and breath sounds, without being acoustically isolated from the other monitoring. In addition it is possible to record from the device to audiotape.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D004867	Equipment Design	Methods and patterns of fabricating machines and related hardware.	Design, Equipment,Device Design,Medical Device Design,Design, Medical Device,Designs, Medical Device,Device Design, Medical,Device Designs, Medical,Medical Device Designs,Design, Device,Designs, Device,Designs, Equipment,Device Designs,Equipment Designs
D004947	Esophagus	The muscular membranous segment between the PHARYNX and the STOMACH in the UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT.
D006326	Heart Auscultation	Act of listening for sounds within the heart.	Cardiac Auscultation,Auscultation, Cardiac,Auscultation, Heart,Auscultations, Cardiac,Auscultations, Heart,Cardiac Auscultations,Heart Auscultations
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000776	Anesthesiology	A specialty concerned with the study of anesthetics and anesthesia.
D001314	Auscultation	Act of listening for sounds within the body.	Auscultations
D014159	Transducers	Any device or element which converts an input signal into an output signal of a different form. Examples include the microphone, phonographic pickup, loudspeaker, barometer, photoelectric cell, automobile horn, doorbell, and underwater sound transducer. (McGraw Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)	Transducer
D016343	Monitoring, Intraoperative	The constant checking on the state or condition of a patient during the course of a surgical operation (e.g., checking of vital signs).	Intraoperative Monitoring