| Standard of Care |
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Proven Clinical Utility |
Clinical auscultation has been a standard-of-care early detection tool for well over 200 years. All medical schools continue to teach auscultation to medical students and residents as part of basic medical training.
Many clinical studies over the last 20 years have shown that cardiac, pulmonary, and digestive tract auscultation remains highly accurate for the detection and grading (risk assessment) of a wide variety of vascular blood flow defects. Such blood flow defects include:
| Cardiac Disease |
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Valvular disease: All Grades of murmurs, regurgitation, Prolapse, Stenosis
- Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
Cardiomyopathy (enlarged heart)
- Septal Defects: holes in and between
heart chambers
- Third and Fourth Heart Sounds
- Arrhythmias: Tachycardia, Irregular Heart
Beats, Pacemaker assessment & quality
control
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| Pulmonary Disease |
- Pneumonia: early detection, grading, and ongoing assessment
- Asthma, Emphysema, Bronchitis, Lung cancer
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary
Disease (COPD)
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| Digestive Tract |
- Bowel blockages and Bruits: detection and grading
- Bowel aneurisms
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| Peripheral Vascular |
- Carotid Stenosis: High risk indicator for stroke.
- Vascular Bruits, vascular aneurisms
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