The Ventriloscope has been developed by Dr. Paul Lecat to transmit normal or abnormal sounds from lung, heart, bowel, BP, Doppler, etc. to a realistic stethoscope receiver. It can be used with Standardized Patients (USA), Simulated Patients (UK) or manikin.
Skills
- Distinguish normal and abnormal sounds
- Placement and use of the stethoscope
- Assess proper use of diaphragm and bell of stethoscope for appropriate sounds
- Integrate findings with history gathered from a live patient
- Learn to document auscultatory findings accurately
- Can be used to teach Blood Pressure to large or small groups
- Can be used to to teach Doppler and Percussion sounds
- Simple to operate
- Completely integrates history taking with physical exam, including abnormals
- Place any sound, anywhere on a live patient or manikin
- Use any MP3 recording (create your own and load it onto an SD memory card)
- Can be used on any manikin
- Allows for changes in murmurs with maneouvres
- Students can teach each other
- Allows precision timing of sounds
- Transmitter is easily concealed in the hand or pocket and receiver is incorporated into cardiology style stethoscope
- Uses wireless transmission with cutting edge chip technology. Operates on a reserved frequency band and cycles frequencies for absolute test security
- Can be used with auditorium sound systems or speakers for group teaching
- Battery life of 8 hours continuous use and charges in about an hour
- Volume control allows trainee to detect even faint sounds
- Ventriloscope transmitter
- Cardiology style Stethoscope receiver
- SD memory card with 12 sounds:
- Normal heart, S4 gallop, Tachycardia, Bowel sounds,S3 gallop, Normal inspiration, Bruit, Normal expiration, Korotkoff, Expiratory wheezes, Korotkoff (tachycardia), Inspiratory crackles
- USB cables for charging
- Stethoscope accessory kit
- Instruction manual
- Locking aluminium carrying case

