Stethoscopes for hearing aid users

RE: Stethoscopes for hearing aid users

Rob Loxley — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 19:13:37 GMT

Thanks for this recommendation; they did reply to my ema email today; apparently covetrus is a Uk distributor

RE: Stethoscopes for hearing aid users

lisashaul — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 13:04:15 GMT

Nope, landlines are a problem, as very few have good quality or boost options.

But I love my Doro smartphone.

Designed for old people, so doesn't have the fast and large brain of other phones, but I have yet to try a phone with as good sound quality all the time, and sound boost (35bB) on hands free.

RE: Stethoscopes for hearing aid users

lisashaul — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 13:01:01 GMT

I love me eKuore electronic stethoscopes.

I particularly love that it's so easy to use alongside my In The Ear hearing aids (if I had newer ones I could Bluetooth the signal directly),

you can filter out lung sounds and crank up the volume, kids love being able to hear their pets, I can hear murmurs often before the normal-eared and their ordinary stethoscopes, and you can send the signal to a phone or tablet to record the sonogram.

But, as noted elsewhere, they have got a bit hard to contact of late

They have not replied to emails, but I did find I still have WhatsApp contact details, so must get onto them and see if it works

RE: Stethoscopes for hearing aid users

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:29:32 GMT

When I first got the hearing aids I tried all sorts of things. The Littman electonic stethoscope was useless. So was the Thinklabs electronic stethoscope that used headphones (it would be great if you wanted to get into sonography, though; but that's a different question.) For a while one of the wholesalers was plugging heavily a Spanish electronic stethoscope that might have been able to "stream" (is that the right word?) to your aids, but it seems to have vanished again. Perhaps it wasn't much good. Certainly the Korean one I tried was what my American acquaintances call a POS (you work it out).

I've gone back to taking one aid out to use the stethoscope. Now I'm used to it, it works very well and it's no trouble.

Now if someone comes up with an electronic stethoscope thar streams reliably to a hearing aid, AND a hearing aid that receives it reliably, without distortion or interference, that would be great. I fear though that the aid would be hideously expensive, perhaps prohibitively so if you already have a pair of aids that work fine for most purposes.

I can't help with the telephone. I always take both aids out for that.

Which reminds me, and this ought to be a tangent I know, one of my many pet hates is when people gabble away into their distorting mobiles and get surprised when I tell them I can only make out one word in twenty.

RE: Stethoscopes for hearing aid users

Bob Russell — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 09:13:52 GMT

I have a littmann electronic stethoscope because I was concerned about missing some murmurs. The next model up has bluetooth connectivity so may connect to all sorts!

Perhaps email littmann for advice. They are the real experts.

Quite like the stethoscope I have as you cannot hear clients when using it!!!

RE: Stethoscopes for hearing aid users

Arlo Guthrie — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 22:28:42 GMT

And for a bonus point, if anyone can also suggest a good landline telephone for the hard of hearing ...