Hearing Fetal Heartbeat With A Doppler - Clinical Skills - Dr Gill

How To Use A Fetal Doppler After 16 Weeks Pregnancy - Dr Gill


Using a fetal, Doppler seems like one of those very specialist skills. However, I would argue that being able to accurately, and reliably detect a fetal heart rate, and separate that from the maternal heart rate is a clinical skill that all practising doctors should be able to perform.

In almost all specialities, you will likely come across pregnant women in your care, and regardless of the medical issue for which you're seeing the mother. There, the majority of pregnant women will be more concerned about the unborn child. In those situations, being able to use a fetal, ultrasound probe is a fantastic tool to help a mother, even if it is merely a temporary measure, whilst you are arranging a specialist obstetric review for definitive reassurance

In this video, we address how you can use the fetal Doppler, in order to listen to a babies, heart sounds.

We highlight the reasons that you may want to listen to a fetal doppler, and highlight approaches to differentiating the maternal from fetal sounds

Here is the link to the BMJ article outlining the issues with patients utilising fetal dopplers at home
https://www.bmj.com/bmj/section-pdf/1...

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Please note that there is no ABSOLUTE way to perform a clinical examination. Different institutions and even clinicians will have differing degrees of variations - the aim is the effectively identify medically relevant signs.

However during OSCE assessments. Different medical schools, nursing colleges, and other health professional courses will have their own preferred approach to a clinical assessment - you should concentrate on THEIR marks schemes for your assessments.

The examination demonstrated here is derived from Macleod's Clinical Examination - a recognized standard textbook for clinical skills.


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