Is it possible to keep your hand on your heart or rib cage to hear the third heart sound (s3) or is it possible via the bell of the stethoscope only?

Question

Is it possible to keep your hand on your heart or rib cage to hear the third heart sound (s3) or is it possible via the bell of the stethoscope only?

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Answer 1

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK342/

This book from the 1980s suggests that S3 is palpable or visible, albeit rarely so. Or do you mean to say put your hand on someone else’s chest and then your ear against your hand? Historically, physicians would auscultate with the ear against someone’s chest so you could do that and potentially hear S3.