Stethoscope with Bluetooth?

RE: Stethoscope with Bluetooth?

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:46:37 GMT

[quote user="George Cooper"]Evelyn, do you not get feedback when wearing over-the-ear headphones? I find my aids whistle even when I am resting my weary head on the sofa backrest. [/quote]

Ah, the well-known granny whistle. As it happens, no, not very often. Possibly due to fine tuning of the volume?

[quote user="George Cooper"]flowing locks[/quote]

Yes, these are essential.

RE: Stethoscope with Bluetooth?

George Cooper — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 10:31:47 GMT

Evelyn, do you not get feedback when wearing over-the-ear headphones? I find my aids whistle even when I am resting my weary head on the sofa backrest.

There are two tiny mics in the top of the gubbins that contains the battery and electrics, and the sound is fed down a stiffened tube to a floppy rubberised device that sits in the ear canal - perfect for howl-around.

I resort to removing one device and listening monaurally through my standard 'scope; replacing the 'aid does involve minor contortions and adjustment of flowing locks to achieve, but is done inside a few seconds. And if any client chuckles, a fiver gets added to the bill!!

RE: Stethoscope with Bluetooth?

Edward Jones — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 09:03:18 GMT

You might be able to get a separate bluetooth audio transmitter, and plug it into the thinklabs device that Evelyn mentions. i.e. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bluetooth-Transmitter-TaoTronics-Portable-Transmission-Black/dp/B00Q2EGQQU/

RE: Stethoscope with Bluetooth?

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 22:47:34 GMT

I am in a similar situation.

I tried a Littman electronic stethoscope on free trial. It did not offer Bluetooth. I don't know why. (Incidentally, other than that facility, I cannot see why anyone, except maybe a lecturer, would want the Littman one: why go to the trouble of making an electronic device and then only provide it with conventional stethoscope ear pieces? The sound quality was not remarkably better. You could link it to a Windows computer and get a sonograph. Big deal. )

I have a cheap Korean electronic stethoscope, which might have worked had the construction quality not been so abysmal.

I then got myself a Thinklabs One from Kruuse(had it on free trial first). You buy your own headphones, of quality of your choice, to go with it. It has a device to link it to a phone, iPad, whatever, so may link to your streaming device. (My present hearing aids don't have such a device and in any case the old one was a blinking faff dangling round my neck and losing contact unpredictably). I have nice padded "closed back" headphones that go right over my ears and the aids. This works OK but you get an awful lot of extraneous sounds – hair, skin and so on – that it doesn't filter out; and it hums when the fridge motor is running. It's certainly a talking point with the clients!

When I want to have a detailed auscultation, I take the hearing aids out and use my faithful reliable Littman conventional. Sometimes I think I should have resigned myself to doing that from the beginning.