Auscultation Manikins
The art of auscultation requires a fine-tuned ear and knowledge about the many of ailments that befall the human body. Physicians, nurses and emergency medical professionals must hear the unique sounds of the heart and the lungs to determine the right course of action for their patient. To master the art of auscultation requires many hours of practice outside of clinical hours.
Cardionics has a number of solutions for instructors and students looking for tools to aid auscultation. Engineers, professors of medicine, and physicians have contributed their vast expertise to products like the SAM, Student Auscultation Manikin that aids in teaching auscultation. These manikins are similar to CPR dummies, except they contain sound devices and sensors that produce heart, lung, bowel and carotid bruit sounds for medical training.
Realistic Auscultation Manikins
These manikins provide sounds from the heart, lungs, bowels as well as carotid bruits in the correct anatomical location for accurate training. In conjunction with the SimulScope Bedside Auscultation System, medical instructors and students are able to listen to the same sounds simultaneously for proper evaluation. At the touch of a button, Professors and trainers can cause SAM, the Student Auscultation Manikin to produce a specific set of sounds for individual examinations of both adult and pediatric conditions. The library of heart sounds includes testing sound modules and sound modules for Standardized Patients. In the near future, SAM will be available on-line for students of Cardionics customers to access with a password.
As a medical professional, you can use this manikin to effectively teach students both cardiac and pulmonary auscultation. Students practice with their own stethoscopes. In the classroom, a phonocardiogram can be displayed allowing students to see and hear heart sounds while palpating the carotid pulse. You can also change the volume on individual sounds to cause a murmur to migrate into a specific area.
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