An apparatus to enable health care providers to perform a number of
diagnostic procedures, including listening to the heart, obtaining
electrocardiograms and sonograms. A pocket size instrument displays an
EKG tracing on its screen simultaneously upon auscultation of the heart.
The abdomen may also be investigated by displaying a sonogram. Wireless
broadband technology may provide a closed circuit interface for real-time
wireless transmission of acquired data. Examination requires none of a
multiplicity of wires to untangle, bulky machines or a technician to be
summoned. Regurgitation, heart size, ischemia and heart murmurs can all
be evaluated by a visual and auditory methods.