-VISIT OUR OTHER FORUMS- OB-GYN-L Ultrasound Ultrasound History Fibroid Forum Physicians-in-Training Tech Talk OBSTET-L (portuguese) OBGIN-L (spanish) Nursing

Re: CNM Cases From: Steve & Eryl Raymond (eryl@intekom.co.za) Tue Nov 30 11:08:39 2004 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Steve & Eryl Raymond: "Re: Evista" Previous message: Steve & Eryl Raymond: "Re: Fetoscope" In reply to: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: CNM Cases" Next in thread: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: CNM Cases" Reply: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: CNM Cases" Reply: Larry Glazerman: "Re: CNM Cases" Reply: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: CNM Cases" You should come and work here for a while. We have never been able to keep electronic devices for listening to the fetal heart - we think they get pinched by people who think they are radios. Therefore we always listen with a Pinard - the better name is a "phonendoscope" - unless it is in the Labour Ward where a Cardiotocograph is available. I have always been fascinated by those American pictures of a binaural fetoscope which make the user look like a rhinoceros or a unicorn about to attack and disembowel a pregnant woman. But I've never seen one "in the flesh". My professor when I was very junior rapped me over the knuckles for using a stethoscope as he said it was too difficult to pick up the fetal heart which has a sound frequency different from that of the adult heart sounds. Steve Raymond Anna Meenan, MD wrote: >According to Google, a fetoscope is both a stethoscope for listening to >the fetus, and a fiberoptic scope for looking at the fetus in utero. >There are two types of fetoscopes used for listening. The binaural >fetoscope, pictured in the website Art's post links to, and the Pinard >fetoscope, pictured here: > >http://www.birthinternational.com/product/equip/be009.html > >We have a binaural fetoscope in a drawer at our clinic, and I encourage >our students to learn to use it. The ability to hear FHT's with a >fetoscope (or my Littmann Cardiology Stethoscope) is a skill which has >come in handy more than once, as no one in the ER can ever seem to find >the doppler when it is needed. > >One of the guys in my call group has a Pinard that he brought with him >from Argentina. > > Anna Meenan, MD > >At Mon, 29 Nov 2004, art fougner, md wrote: > >>F-E-T-O-S-C-O-P-E >>correctamundo, EL >> >>and for any interested ... >>http://www.allheart.com/om13fetal.html >> >>art >> >>At Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: >> >>>If I am not mistaken, it is called fetoscope, but I find that my >>>Littmann's Cardiology stethoscope does very nicely. >>> >>>el >>> Next message: Steve & Eryl Raymond: "Re: Evista" Previous message: Steve & Eryl Raymond: "Re: Fetoscope" In reply to: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: CNM Cases" Next in thread: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: CNM Cases" Reply: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: CNM Cases" Reply: Larry Glazerman: "Re: CNM Cases" Reply: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: CNM Cases"

Return to

Mail a New Message to the Forum: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net Forum Administrator: geffrey.klein@obgyn.net Report Technical Problems: webmaster@obgyn.net Last Updated: Fri May 2 04:39:18 2008

The American Medical Association is no longer designating CME hours for AMA Category II CME credit. However, physicians themselves may self designate learning activities as Category II CME credit hours if they feel it is of sufficient educational merit and meets the formal definitions of continuing medical education. OBGYN.net believes these interaction in this forum meets these criteria. For further information see the AMA web site.