MATT Auscultation Trainer
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More Than Sound Recognition
Teach Auscultation Within the Clinical Examination
- Developing auscultation skill means moving beyond isolated recognition of heart, lung, and bowel sounds. Learners must understand where to listen, how sounds present during examination, and what they mean in clinical context.
- MATT creates an integrated learning experience that connects sound, anatomy, touch, and clinical context.
- Hands-on practice turns sound recognition into auscultation skill: learners locate sounds accurately, examine each region systematically, and interpret what they hear in clinical context.
Thorax Acoustics
Experience Heart and Lung Sounds as They Exist in the Patient
- Thorax Acoustics recreates the cardiopulmonary acoustic environment through engineered acoustic pathways within the thorax.
- Heart and lung sounds coexist naturally across the chest.
- As learners move across the chest, cardiac sounds shift in character and intensity from site to site while remaining part of the surrounding pulmonary soundscape.
- The result is a more realistic and intuitive auscultation experience that helps learners understand not only what a sound is, but where and how it presents during physical examination.
A Multisensory Approach to Auscultation Training
Hear It. See It. Feel It. Understand It.
Hear
Explore an extensive library of normal and abnormal heart, lung, and bowel sounds. Instructors can isolate each system, combine heart and lung sounds for cardiopulmonary auscultation, or bring all three together in one integrated examination.
See
An internally illuminated Anatomy Map brings heart auscultation sites, lung lobes and fissures, and abdominal quadrants into view across the torso’s visible ribs and surface landmarks. ECG waveforms and respiratory curves show cardiac and respiratory rhythms, helping learners connect what they hear with what they see.
Feel
Lifelike skin, palpable ribs, surface landmarks, and bilateral carotid pulses create a hands-on physical examination experience. Cardiac sounds synchronize with the palpable carotid pulses, allowing learners to hear and feel the cardiac rhythm simultaneously.
Understand
By combining auditory, visual, spatial, and tactile information, MATT moves auscultation beyond sound recognition—helping learners understand what they hear, where and how sounds present during examination, and what they mean in clinical context.
Cardiac, Pulmonary & Abdominal Auscultation
From Focused Training to Integrated Auscultation
MATT allows educators to teach cardiac, pulmonary, and abdominal auscultation independently or bring heart, lung, and bowel sounds together in an integrated examination.
Cardiac Auscultation
Listen to heart sounds at five key auscultation sites—aortic, pulmonic, Erb’s point, tricuspid, and mitral—with sound character and intensity changing by location.
Cardiac sounds may be isolated or presented with concurrent pulmonary sounds. They can also be synchronized with bilateral carotid pulses, allowing learners to hear and feel cardiac rhythm simultaneously.
Pulmonary Auscultation
As a comprehensive lung sound auscultation trainer, MATT allows learners to auscultate normal and abnormal lung sounds across the anatomical areas of the lung lobes on the anterior and posterior torso. Pulmonary sounds may be isolated or presented with concurrent cardiac sounds.
Abdominal Auscultation
Use normal and abnormal bowel sounds to teach systematic auscultation across all four abdominal quadrants.
An Extensive Library of Auscultation Sounds
Train Beyond Normal Auscultation Sounds
MATT includes a broad library of high-fidelity auscultation sounds designed to support training from introductory recognition through advanced clinical interpretation.
Heart Sounds
Normal and split heart sounds, S3 and S4 gallops, systolic and diastolic murmurs, clicks, opening snaps, pericardial rubs, valve abnormalities, and more.
Abdominal Sounds
Normal, hyperactive, and hypoactive bowel sounds, borborygmi, peritoneal friction rubs, renal artery bruits, and sounds associated with gastrointestinal conditions.
Lung Sounds
Normal and diminished breath sounds, rhonchi, coarse and fine crackles, stridor, wheezes, pleural friction rubs, and sounds associated with asthma, COPD, pneumonia, pulmonary edema, pneumothorax, and more.
This extensive sound library allows educators to configure everything from focused listening exercises to integrated multisystem auscultation presentations.
Illuminated Anatomy Map
See the Anatomy. Feel the Landmarks.
MATT illuminates heart auscultation sites, lung lobes and fissures, and abdominal quadrants directly through the torso’s skin, bringing the examination landscape vividly into view across visible ribs and surface landmarks.
With the ribs and intercostal spaces visible and palpable, learners can see where cardiac auscultation sites fall within the surface anatomy and connect visual orientation with touch. Anatomy becomes the terrain of the examination—not a diagram studied apart from it.
The easy-clean, write-on skin allows instructors to mark landmarks, guide placement, and support hands-on teaching and assessment.
Instructor-Friendly Auscultation Software
Quick Setup. Intuitive Control.
With a straightforward torso, tablet, and external speaker setup, MATT is easy to prepare for instruction. Its clean, thoughtfully organized interface puts controls where instructors expect them, keeping the focus on teaching.
Instructors can quickly:
- Select and configure heart, lung, and bowel sounds
- Isolate each system, combine heart and lung sounds for cardiopulmonary auscultation, or bring all three together
- Adjust heart and respiratory rates
- Control bilateral carotid pulses
- Highlight individual anatomical zones or all zones together, and display ECG and respiratory waveforms
- Switch between torso auscultation and external speaker output
From focused listening to integrated examination, MATT adapts easily to the lesson at hand.
Designed for Clinical Education
Hands-On Auscultation for Individual and Group Learning
Learners can use their own standard stethoscopes to auscultate MATT. Multiple learners can listen simultaneously, while the external speaker provides clear sound for guided listening, classroom demonstrations, and discussion.
As a versatile student auscultation manikin, MATT supports medical, nursing, respiratory therapy, EMS, allied health, and CTE health sciences education, as well as OSCE preparation, in classrooms, simulation centers, and clinical skills labs.
Limited Availability — Special Pricing
Looking for a More Budget-Friendly Auscultation Training Option?
Select MATT configurations are currently available in limited quantities at special pricing.
Availability varies by model and configuration and is offered only while supplies last.
Contact our team to learn which MATT configurations are currently available and find the option that best fits your training needs and budget.
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