主张听诊器不应废止的第一线工作医师们在学术上找到了盟友。新墨西哥大学一项前瞻性研究的作者们指出，用动态听诊进行心血管检查应该是无症状瓣膜性心脏病的基本筛选手段。他们说动态听诊优于超声心动图，因为对无症状的人来说，花钱检查超声心动图可能不值得。病人和方法对1 First-line working physicians who advocate that stethoscopes should not be abolished have academically found allies. The authors of a prospective study at the University of New Mexico pointed out that the use of dynamic auscultation for cardiovascular screening should be a primary screening tool for asymptomatic valvular heart disease. They say that dynamic auscultation is superior to echocardiography because, for asymptomatic people, spending money on echocardiography may not be worth it. Patient and method to 1