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Hey does anyone have any suggestions on a new stethoscope? The one my school gave me just doesn't cut it in the back of a load ambulance.
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When I was in medic school (long, long ago) I couldn't tell the difference between wheezing and rales. I totally sucked at breath sound auscultation. Then I tried a fancy pair of ears. What a difference!Hey does anyone have any suggestions on a new stethoscope?...
I routinely swap between using a Sprague Rappaport (the cheap dual tubed ones on every ambulance), an Ultrascope, and a Master Classic. Most of the time, the sprague is fine for BPs. If I want to listen to lung or heart sounds, I pull out one of the other scopes, and if I want to take a BP through clothing, its the Ultrascope all the way. If you can get on skin contact, the master classic is going to give the best sound, IMO.
Actually, quite the opposite. Littmans are by far the most common stethoscope used (at least around here), and may as well have feet of their own for how often they walk off. But that's any stethoscope. Be responsible with it and you'll keep it for years. My littman is either in my ears, on my neck, or inside my bag. Never anywhere else.Plus with Litmann much the same as that ultrasound steth not many people have those/willing to fork out for them so it's not easily lost. I'll be getting one that's engraved actually! Maybe in Silver or something too, or maybe Blue so that it can't be confused for a doctors. They have engraving on the tube itself AND the head of the steth!
I love my ultrascope but regularly catch flack from Ed staff on "how goofy it looks".