Typically performed at each physical examination, auscultation is therefore a medical test.
Free of risks and contraindications, the auscultation test represents a fundamental step in the preliminary diagnosis of suffering affecting organs such as: the heart, lungs, large vessels and intestine; all these organs, in fact, emit abnormal sounds when affected by a disease.
Because of its preliminary diagnostic power, auscultation is a test that, in the course of a physical examination, should never be missing.
The physical examination includes a series of typical "diagnostic maneuvers"; these "diagnostic maneuvers" are:
- Inspection, which corresponds to looking at the body;
- Palpation, which corresponds to feeling the body with the help of the hands, fingers in particular;
- Percussion, which corresponds to testing the sound of the body in particular points, through the touch of these;
- The "auscultation, which, as stated above" actually corresponds to hearing the noises inside the body, through the use of the stethoscope.
The "physical examination is a" investigation whose execution involves the patient; the doctor, in fact, could ask the latter to perform certain movements, cough, take particular positions, etc., all with the aim of gathering as much information as possible on the state of health.
most important parts of the body (eg: aorta and carotids) and the intestine, produce abnormal or different sounds and noises from normal.Auscultation is the test that allows to grasp these sounds and evaluate their characteristics, in order to distinguish them from normality.
Auscultation is the test that allows you to formulate a preliminary assessment of the health of the cardiovascular system, the respiratory system and the gastrointestinal system, relying exclusively on the noises emitted by the organs making up the aforementioned systems.
