"Stethoscopes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Instruments intended to detect and study sound produced by the heart, lungs, or other parts of the body. (from UMDNS, 1999)
| Descriptor ID |
D019023
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
E07.230.750
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Stethoscopes".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Stethoscopes".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Stethoscopes" by people in this website by year, and whether "Stethoscopes" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
To return to the timeline, click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Stethoscopes" by people in Profiles.
-
Stethoscope - An essential diagnostic tool or a relic of the past? Hosp Pract (1995). 2021 Oct; 49(4):240-244.
-
Stethoscope hygiene: A call to action. Recommendations to update the CDC guidelines. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2021 06; 42(6):740-742.
-
Lung Auscultation of Hospitalized Patients with SARS-CoV-2 Pneumonia via a Wireless Stethoscope. Int J Med Sci. 2021; 18(6):1415-1422.
-
A basic investigation into the optimization of cylindrical tubes used as acoustic stethoscopes for auscultation in COVID-19 diagnosis. J Acoust Soc Am. 2021 01; 149(1):66.
-
Keeping PPE barriers in COVID-19 wards while doing proper auscultation. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2020 12 09; 9(1):196.
-
Auscultating with personal protective equipment (PPE) during COVID-19 pandemic - Challenges and solutions. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 2021 Jan; 256:509-510.
-
Characteristics of Pulmonary Auscultation in Patients with 2019 Novel Coronavirus in China. Respiration. 2020; 99(9):755-763.
-
Review of Telehealth Solutions for Outpatient Heart Failure Care in a Veterans Health Affairs Hospital in the COVID-19 Era. R I Med J (2013). 2020 11 02; 103(9):22-25.
-
Evidence of the Sequential Changes of Lung Sounds in COVID-19 Pneumonia Using a Novel Wireless Stethoscope with the Telemedicine System. Intern Med. 2020 Dec 15; 59(24):3213-3216.
-
COVID-19: the need to redesign head coverings of personal protective equipment for manual stethoscopes. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2020 10 05; 114(10):713-714.