Contents
- Canine Auscultation Trainer
- RealityScope™ stethoscope attachment
- Smart device with app
- Carrying bag
- Quick start guide
- Downloadable Canine Auscultation Curriculum
- 1-year limited warranty
Canine Auscultation Trainer
Give veterinary students the hands-on experience they need with the Canine Auscultation Trainer. This lifelike trainer allows users to auscultate key diagnostic sounds in the heart, lungs, and bowels, providing realistic practice in a controlled, no-harm environment. With pliable limbs, bending joints, and the ability to position the trainer in various surgery and x-ray poses, students can practice proper canine restraint techniques in addition stethoscope usage.
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Canine Auscultation Trainer
Lesson topics:
1. Proper Use of a Stethoscope
2. Auscultation of the Heart, Lungs, and Bowels
Teaching hours: 3-4
Includes: Presentation slides, student activities, and pre- and post-assessments
Aligns to: Vet and Animal Science Standards
Canine Auscultation Trainer Curriculum Overview
Features
Canine Auscultation Trainer features:
- Includes a smart device and app programmed with 22 lifelike sounds:
- Heart sounds: Healthy, slow, and fast heartbeat; fast and slow arrhythmia; continuous, diastolic, and systolic murmurs; patent ductus arteriosus; and atrial fibrillation
- Lung sounds: Slow, normal, fast, faint, heavy, wheeze, crackle, stridor, and stertor breathing
- Bowel sounds: Healthy, hyperactive, and hypoactive
- Limbs move naturally for practicing different restraint holds
- Can be positioned into sitting, standing, and lying down positions
- Fits standard muzzles
- About the size of a mid-sized Golden Retriever
- Aids in scaffolding learning when students work with the trainer in practice mode and graduate to assessment mode before working with a real canine patient
FAQ
How can I use the trainer and app with my students?
The app allows users to select individual sounds to play in their respective locations, as well as which conditions to implement in an assessment scenario. Students can conduct independent practice with the trainer, and instructors can use the app to edit the assessment mode and create desired scenarios for student testing.
What is the difference between practice and assessment mode?
In practice mode, you choose the scenario you want the user to practice, and they hear the sounds relevant to that condition when they place their stethoscope over the corresponding auscultation site on the trainer. Unrelated sounds (such as lung sounds during a cardiac scenario) will not be played. The app also allows users to see where they should place the stethoscope to hear the sounds.
In assessment mode, users will hear anatomically appropriate sounds wherever they place their stethoscope (lung, heart, or bowel sounds) and they are challenged to identify and diagnose the scenario or condition.
What comes with the app?
The app includes a library of heart, lung, and bowel sounds. Those sounds are divided into “practice” and “assessment” modes. In practice mode, students only hear sounds associated with the selected condition. In assessment mode, students hear the sounds selected by the instructor. Practice mode also includes diagrams of where to place the stethoscope to hear certain sounds and descriptions of what conditions the sound might indicate.
How does the RealityScope™ attachment work?
The RealityScope attachment fits on any stethoscope and communicates with the included smart device via Bluetooth technology. When users place the RealityScope attachment over corresponding auscultation sites on the trainer, they can hear the correct heart, lung, or bowel sound. Instructors can use the app to control which sounds the students are listening to.
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Do I need a stethoscope to use the Canine Auscultation Trainer?
Because the sound emitting from the RealityScope attachment is designed to be amplified through a stethoscope, we recommend students use their stethoscope with the trainer to ensure realistic practice sessions.
Dual-Head Stethoscope 10-Packs can be purchased from Realityworks.
How does this canine trainer differ from your other canine manikins?
Use this chart to compare the functions and features of our canine trainers:
Canine Manikins Comparison Chart
How many trainers would you recommend for a 20-student classroom?
It depends on your budget and how you want to implement the trainer. In general, we recommend one trainer for a 20-student classroom.
How does this trainer fit in a veterinary science pathway program?
The Canine Auscultation Trainer makes a great addition to a Small Animal Veterinary Practices course in a vet science program. See our Veterinary Science Pathway Chart for more information.
Do you offer product support?
Yes! Our product support team is available M-F 8am-5pm Central Time via phone, email or chat. Contact customer support here.
Specifications
- Dimensions (standing): 30″ x 10″ x 24″
- Weight: 9.6 lbs.
Resources
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1 review for Canine Auscultation Trainer
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Dr. Diane M –
We were excited to put some new clinical simulators to use this semester! Our auscultation simulators not only teach the students what normal heart, lung, and GI sounds are like, they also teach the correct placement of your stethoscope to hear clearly, and what abnormal conditions sound like. We have also already got to work learning IV catheter placement!