Re: CNM Cases
From: Larry Glazerman (l.glazerman@rcn.com)
Tue Nov 30 15:37:56 2004
We used to use those "fetoscopes" that go over the head when I was a medical
student. Haven't seen one for a long time.
--
Larry R. Glazerman, MD
Ob-Gyn at Trexlertown, PC
610-402-0161
l.glazerman@rcn.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net [mailto:ob-gyn-l@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of Steve &
Eryl
> Raymond
> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 1:12 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list OB-GYN-L
> Subject: 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
> >>>
>
