Auscultated over shirt

Auscultating over the shirt will not give a decrease of loudness. However, with shirts and bra's, it's difficult to locate the right spots (you have to count ribs and find the intercostal places etc..

But for a flu (nothing heart related) I don't see problems with that.

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Most doctors only go through the motions when it comes to auscultations. My Nurse / PA rarely listens to me in other than one spot, usually pulmonic. That is my favorite spot though : )

Usually i am stethed over the shirt when sick. However there is one NP that will make me take off my shirt to be listened to. This is the way I perfer. The cold room makes my temp rise even more

I've never been stethed over my shirt and neither heard of someone stethed in this way...

I'm usually always auscultated over my shirt. Once in a while Ill get the lifting or going under.

To Peachy Keen, welcome.... and to your question, no, I have not said anything to My Doctor about it.... it wasnt heart related, so perhaps it was just no big deal for him..... same with My female Doctor a couple years ago when I went in for a checkup.... but I remember asking her a heart related question about why I had trouble feeling My HEART under normal circumstances and why was that.... she looked at Me funny and asked Me if I had any heart problem that she didnt know about..... after I told her I had no heart problem that I knew of, anyways, I was too embarrassed to embellish on My question.... lol.... I also remember asking her how close to the surface of My breast did My HEART lie....

I was ascultated on bare skin any time this happened. I have also auscultated EMS trauma and medical pts. on their bare skin as part of secondary survey with good diagnostic results.

Great question !!!

A few times in the past my heart and lungs have been listened to over my shirt-especially if at a drugstore clinic or at the doctor for a different (not sick related to a cough) visit. For the most past, though, especially in recent years, I have been listened to on bare skin. Shirt sometimes lifted up to listen to my back, steth slipped down my shirt for heart-but many times now, totally topless with just a paper gown or vest. May be since I am a large woman and they really want to get a good listen.

Oh my, yes, Cindyga01

I too am a larger girl, just tipping 20st (approx. 128kg) with 42GG breasts (UK size). It would be an absolute dream to have a doctor examine my heart completely topless due to my weight and where my breasts sit - and even better find it's not healthy.

Absolute fantasy.

My wife’s doctor always insists that she remove her blouse for auscultation, no matter what the medical issue.

Interestingly, he just slides the stethoscope under my shirt when I have an issue.

To his credit, he never listens over clothes.

If I'm ever auscultated at the doctors then I am asked to remove my top. But to be honest if I see them reaching for the steth my top is already half way off before they put the ear pieces in

Same here, never been listened to over my shirt. Until a few years ago, they'd ask me to lift my shirt, but still listen on bare skin, but for the past few years I've been asked to remove my shirt so it's now just an automatic reaction to take it off when they come to listen to me.

My PCP listened to my chest and back over top of my t-shirt at my last physical.

Yes, I have the experience of having my chest auscultated through my shirt during one physical exam. Despite not even having my take off my shirt, that doctor did have my drop my pants and briefs for a hernia exam. I still remember that exam because I thought it was exciting that the most cursory exam of the heart, lungs, and abdomen would be part of the same exam in which the genitalia were examined.

At my last yearly obgyn visit, she listened to heart and lungs on top of my shirt.. which was a first.

Its usually over the shirt for me .

It does seem to be over the shirt a lot these days. I think the new stethoscopes allow them to hear better even over clothing. I had my heart & lungs auscultated at a specialist appt. on Monday and she listened over my clothing. My family doctor sometimes listens over clothing, other times she will lift my shirt up without even asking.

My wife was examined by the family doctor recently! She wasn't well that day when she got up, she showered first but when she came out she was really not well, so I helped her to the chair, just wiped her naked. Later, she dressed in a "cool" way. She put on panties, leggings and a t-shirt. She had called the family doctor in the meantime. Usually he checks over her shirt, that's why she hadn't put on a bra to be comfortable. When the doctor arrived, he first took her blood pressure and then he checked her, he started from behind, over the shirt and then in front, he spread the collar and slipped his stethoscope over her breasts and then he lifted the shirt and placed it under her breasts.

When he pushed his collar out wide, he must have been able to see his breasts!

Most of the time, I’m auscultated over my shirt. But when I was seen at a clinic over the weekend, the PA that examined me slipped her stethoscope down my shirt collar to listen! That was a bit of a surprise, since it so rarely happens!

My doctor is older so he always does it under the shirt, and if he cannot get the bell under it he usually has me remove my top.

I listen to both over the shirt and top off. Vital part.

I was always asked to take off my shirt

My doctor always listens to me bare chested she is very beautiful I don’t mind a bit ?

My new gastroenterologist wanted to take a listen, so she did it over my shirt. I asked her if she wanted me to take my shirt off, and she said no.

For script refills, my primary cares tend to do the same. maybe they don't want their steths contaminated with body oils or whatever it is. I tend to think it falls in with the trend of modesty awareness, something I'm not fond of.

Is it really more accurate or more informative skin to skin?

Sometimes over, sometimes under... depends I guess on the sensitivity of the stethoscope and/or the doctor's preference

Never had anything like that. The doc always listens bare chest.

All the time. It doesn't matter much.

A stethoscope is a device that only transmits low freqency. Ordinary cloth doesn't have that much effect on what a Doctor (or anyone) will hear in a gross examination - which is all you're getting.

It's a bit like to same principle of a sub woofer. It can be anywhere. UNLIKE the sound bar which kind of need to be pointing in your direction, where the the sub woofer is and what direction it's pointing doesn't matter that much.

If he hears, he'll take your shirt off. Beware if he takes your shirt off, and doesn't use a stethocope.

For as long as I can remember whenever the doctor has had to listen to my chest, I've been bare chested.

Its usually the case that I just remove my t-shirt the second I see them reaching for the stethoscope but I have had them instruct me to remove my shirt several times before now

Never. I have always been in bare chest because I always take my shirt off.