Clinical Auscultation continues to be a valuable standard-of-care for the early detection, grading, and assessment of many cardiac, pulmonary, and digestive tract anomalies and disease states.

Clinical Auscultation continues to be taught in all US and foreign medical schools and residency programs for physicians specializing in: Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Pulmonology, Gastroenterology, and many other clinical focuses.

Auscultation is also taught to virtually all Physician’s assistants, nurses, nurse specialists, respiratory specialists, ICU and CICU attendants, and numerous other healthcare professionals and support personnel.

There are many excellent peer review articles published in major medical journals over the last 10-15 years that support the accuracy, specificity and sensitivity of auscultation as compared to diagnostic gold standards such as: Cardiac Ultrasound, Cardiac Catheter, Open Heart Surgery, Pulmonary X-Rays, Pulmonary CAT Scans, MRI Gastro CAT Scan, MRI

Auscultation has been shown to be Approximately 90% sensitive, 87% accurate, and 88% specific in relation to Cardiac Ultrasound in the detection, assessment and grading of valvular disease and defects. These results indicate that auscultation by a trained clinician can yield near-diagnostic accuracy for detecting and tracking a wide variety of cardiac disease states.

Auscultation is the monitoring modality of choice among healthcare professionals for low cost tracking and assessment of valvular disease over extended time periods. The added benefits of the Universal system include:

• The ability to perform tele-auscultation on patients at home or in other remote locations.
•  A visual reference of the heart sounds as an assessment tool
• The ability to store and archive up to 60 seconds of patient heart sounds as a document file
• The ability to compare past patient auscultation files to current assessments to track disease progression