Pinard horn
Estetoscopio de Pinard
- Date
- c. 1895 · confidence low
- Place
- Paris, France
- Credited to
- Adolphe Pinard
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Hollow horn-shaped instrument for listening to the fetal heartbeat through the mother's abdomen, devised by obstetrician Adolphe Pinard.
What it led to
- Modern fetal monitoring
- Obstetric ultrasound as a diagnostic complement
- Standardization of prenatal care
- Continued use in low-resource midwifery