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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Name That Medical Equipment



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3 comments:

Meghan said...

Oooh I like "name that medical equipment" I play at Michelle's too!
My answer is: Fetoscope Prenatal Obstetric stethoscope

See you soon!

Stephanie said...

I think it looks like a stethoscope with a bicycle horn on it. So I would call it a bike-horn-oscope. :)

Get cha head in the game!

Jordan said...

Good job, Meg. The fetoscope is "an acoustic stethoscope shaped like a listening trumpet. It is placed against the abdomen of a pregnant woman to listen to the heart sounds of the fetus" (Wikipedia). The fetoscope is also called the Pinard's stethoscope or a pinard, named after Adolphe Pinard (1844-1934), a French obstetrician.

Though not used much anymore in modern practice with our newer, fancy schmancy tools, this stetoscope, along with a doppler fetal monitor, became daily fixtures in my routine in Berne.