Auscultation is a medical term for listening to sounds from certain organs, typically while using a stethoscope. A healthcare provider can auscultate the heart, lungs, or stomach for certain ...

Heart sounds are produced from a specific cardiac event such as closure of a valve or tensing of a chordae tendineae. Many pathologic cardiac conditions can be diagnosed by auscultation of the ...

Dynamic auscultation refers to using maneuvers to alter hemodynamic parameters during cardiac auscultation in order to diagnose the etiology of a heart sound or murmur. The Valsalva maneuver is ...

Auscultation is the next component ... in the differential diagnosis and indicate congenital heart disease. Next, auscultate the breath sounds. Listen for symmetry of breath sounds, comparing ...