Stethoscopes Contaminated After Single Physical Exam Stethoscopes get contaminated after a single physical exam, with the contamination greater than that seen on most of the physician's dominant hand, ...

Stethoscopes may be the next target for cracking down on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. A study in Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that after a physician visits a patient, their ...

The device may help boost early detection of HFrEF for people living in low-resource settings where echo is scarce.

Stethoscopes can be dirtier than hands A clinician's stethoscope may undergo substantial contamination from just one physical examination. The contamination level of a clinician’s stethoscope after a ...

Key takeaways• Smartphone stethoscopes, voice-detected heart failure, training using physical and virtual hearts, as well as early detection of ...

While stethoscopes can transmit the same germs as unclean hands, none of the doctors in a recent study bothered to clean them between patients. And that was the case even after an educational ...