| Stethoscopes have been around for a very long time | | | | the body thus the doctors can hear the device well. |
| already and have been used by a lot of professionals | | | | Often times, it is also added with different features like |
| mostly doctors when it comes to helping them giving | | | | noise filtering system as well as a features that allows |
| out their diagnosis. Stethoscopes are used by doctors | | | | you to record sounds. This particular type allows you |
| to listen to the different sounds of the body such as | | | | to easily hear the sound clearer than the acoustic type. |
| the lungs, hearts and the stomach. By doing so, they | | | | The recording feature also helps the doctor to make a |
| will be able to tell that something is wrong with the | | | | history of the different sounds that the body of their |
| body of the patients. | | | | patients makes. |
| However, most of the time, a stethoscope is used to | | | | Fetal Type |
| listen to the heart beat. But contrary to what most | | | | As the name implies, this particular type is used to |
| people think, stethoscopes have a lot of types. Here is | | | | examine pregnant women. On one end of the device |
| a list of the different types of stethoscopes. | | | | is a plate that looks like a trumpet which is used to |
| Acoustic Type | | | | maximize the ability of the device to detect fetal heart |
| This is the most common type which is just a standard | | | | beat. However, technology modified this device into an |
| chest piece. This is what you would likely see most | | | | electronic sonaid which is a more powerful fetal |
| doctors wearing. It catches the sounds at a very low | | | | stethoscope. |
| frequency. Oftentimes, there are problem hearing faint | | | | These are the different types of stethoscopes |
| sounds. The problem is that the doctors cannot | | | | available to doctors with specialization. For them finding |
| properly do their diagnosis since its use is very limited. | | | | the best stethoscope that matches their medical |
| Electronic Type | | | | specialization will help them perform their duties. |
| This newer type of the device amplifies the sounds of | | | | |