Patent ID: 7393326

Claim:
An apparatus for medical screening and diagnosis by dual detection of stethoscopic and Doppler signals, comprising a sound-transmitting linking conduit connected, at one end, to a housing which at least partially forms an ear trumpet provided with a membrane, and, at the other end, to at least one earpiece for listening to a stethoscopic signal coming from the ear trumpet, wherein the housing is coupled to at least one ultrasound probe positioned with a sensing surface co-planar with said membrane to permit converging reception of ultrasonic and stethoscopic signals; and wherein the ultrasound probe is at an angle of about 30-70 degrees relative to the membrane, and is connected to a transducer processing circuit capable of supplying from a Doppler signal, an audio signal by coupling the processing circuit to a loudspeaker for stethoscopic-type listening, and a video signal by coupling the processing circuit to display means, said processing circuit configured to provide converging stethoscopic-type listening and video signal viewing.