All About The Stethoscope #parts #basics #history #howitworks #howtowearit #clinicalexam
Channel: Decoded Medicine
Date: 2020-12-07

The term stethoscope is derived from two words 'steth' and 'scope' where steth means chest and scope means to inspect. These two terms have been put together to form the single word stethoscope which means to inspect the chest.

The first stethoscope was designed by Laennec, a French physician and musician. It is rather fascinating to read the preface of his classic that was published in August 1819. In 1816, he was consulted by a woman with general symptoms of a diseased heart and in whose case percussion and the application of the hand were of little avail on account of the great degree of fatness. The other method just mentioned direct auscultation being rendered inadmissible with age and sex of the patient. He happened to recollect a simple and well-known fact in acoustics - the great distinctness with which we hear the scratch of a pin at one end of a piece of wood on applying our ear to the other. Immediately on the suggestion, he rolled a paper into a kind of cylinder and applied one end of it to the region of the heart and the other to his ear and was not a little surprised and pleased to find that it could thereby perceive the action of the heart in a manner much more clear and distinct than he had ever been able to do by the immediate application of his ear. 

There has been numerous modifications to this stethoscope since it was first discovered in the 19th century

The stethoscope is used to listen to sounds in various parts of the body including the chest both normal and abnormal sounds can be heard using a stethoscope

The three main parts of this stethoscope are the chest piece, the rubber tubing, and the ear frame.

Watch the video to learn more about the functions of each part.




There are few newer stethoscopes which also have a phonocardiograph attached to it that enables the listener to better learn and appreciate the heart sounds

Isn't it amazing to learn the mechanics of this simple musical instrument?


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