NCT01665820

Auscultate Obese Patients Using Electronic and Traditional Stethoscopes

Study EM-05-012530 Benefit of Auscultation With 3M™ Littmann® 3200 Electronic Stethoscope to Diagnose Murmurs and Heart Pathologies in Overweight and Obese Patients With Increased Layers of Adipose Tissue

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Solventum US LLC · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Auscultating Obese patients using the 3M Littmann Electronic Model 3200 Stethoscope is more effective in identifying referrable murmurs than using a traditional stethoscope.

Detailed description

Study will enroll subjects who have greater than 30 BMI ratings. Each subject will receive 4 auscultation examinations. Two auscultations will be done by a cardiologist using both an acoustic traditional stethoscope and an electronic stethoscope. Two additional auscultations will be done by a 3rd year medical resident also using both an acoustic traditional stethoscope and an electronic stethoscope. All determinations will be compared to echocardiography results.

Conditions

• Chest Pathology

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Auscultate with electronic or mechanical stethoscope (3M Littmann)

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-10-01
• Primary completion: 2012-12-01
• Completion: 2012-12-01
• First posted: 2012-08-15
• Last updated: 2024-10-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Lithuania