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Sunday, August 31, 2008

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope Anatomy (Part 1)

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope

As human physical body, the stethoscope do also have its own anatomical part. Now, I want to introduce it to you one by one. This is the first part of it. Wait for my next post on the second part of it.

1- Headset

The first part that I want to introduce is the metal element of the Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope where the tubing is placed in. This part is called as headset. It is made up of bi-ear tubes, elastic springs as well as two ear tips. The headset has been built in such a way that the angle can placed correctly into the wearers’ ears. However, we can alter the degree of the elasticity to satisfy our need and ease either by dragging the ear tubes away to slacken the headset or crossing them over to make it tighter.

2- Eartip

The Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope is also occupied with a shatter-taut spongy-fastening ear tips. These features make it more contented to wear, stick and sturdiness, and characteristic a portico performance that augments face lubricity and lessens down and dirt bond. Shatter-taut spongy-fasten ear tips are obtainable in minute and big magnitudes in black or grey colors. The Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope come together with an additional set of spongy-fasten ear tips bonus a couple of solid grey ear tips. The hard ear tips are accessible in tiny and big magnitude, grey color.

3-Eartube

The area of where the ear tips are fitted in is called as ear tube. The Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope is fixed with a ridged ear tube. Important Reminder: The entire Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope produced subsequent to the year of 1994 is fixed with a ridged ear tube that provides a “shatter-taut” glued flanked by the ear tube and ear tips.

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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Littmann Lightweight II SE StethoscopeThat the Doctors Love

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope

The existence of doctors formally commences at the reception of their earliest Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope. It is embedded on doctors' intelligences that with the aim of to complete the position of the doctor, they ought to enclose with a metal and rubber-tubing apparatus dangle about their collar in a manner analogous to the doctors on Grey's Anatomy and E.R. in spite of of whether or not doctors know the tones of auscultation or how to pay attention for atypical heart murmurs, they will dress in the stethoscope arrogantly to suggest to the planet that they completed it into the eminent career of medicine. In the medicinal globe, the kind of stethoscope theme as to a great extent to doctors as their sub-sub-specialty preferences. Outer spectators can stride in the course of the wards of a restricted sanatorium and scrutinize which product of stethoscope that doctors could not live devoid of it: Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope.

All doctors possess a Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope! However why are they so fashionable? As asked, a doctor will classically commend the auditory eminence as well as the multi-colored and collapsible, stylish earpieces. Patients and associates will ask doctors if theirs is the similar trade name they watched on previous week's House, M.D. These sorts of inquiries assert the doctor's preference of a Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope as a medicinal approach proclamation. If one sees a doctor honorable a brand-new Littmann Cardiology III stethoscope, it is a good idea to ask them how fine they can listen to through their Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope. You may be able to go after by means of "I on one occasion had an associate attempt to auscultate an Intensive Care Unit patient using a Welch-Allyn Harvey stethoscope, but he could hardly even attend to listen to S1 and S2! It is a superior obsession somebody had a Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope on hand just approximating the one you have or the patient would comprise died." This will additionally strengthen the doctor's self-assurance in his Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope and will give you good turn with that doctor in the upcoming days.

Be careful the doctors who are employing non- Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope! One should by no means, remark on their device because it is possible they were specified a substandard stethoscope as a bequest by a cherished one who obsessed neither the style intelligence nor the therapeutic imminent to recognize what brand name is good enough in the remedial planet. Even though, a luxurious way to earn doctors' favor, donating a Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope to these unlucky doctors may be able to salt away them from a race of trendy disgrace. And it can keep the patients from continuing a trepidation bodily examination concerning a frumpy, non- Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope

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Friday, August 29, 2008

Fall in love with Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope (Part 2)

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope

I held the Littman Lightweight II SE Stethoscope in my hand, and saw the other pink Littman Lightweight II SE Stethoscope staring seductively at me commencing across the space, shows potential care for, cheerfulness and the capability to listen to a paradoxically – split of the second heart sound.

I inquire the cardiology presence that was nearby to glance through. His Kentucky pronunciations condensed the atmosphere prior to his lips, the language gradually create their way throughout it. His declaration keeps on with me all through my profession. “They aren’t what are in your ear that reckons; it is what’s sandwiched between them.”

I adore the modern utensils of my deal – my split light, the visual lucidity tomographer, my phaco apparatus, the laser - but the most priceless contrivance I own is me: my mind, pursued strongly by my eyes in addition to my hands, all detained collectively in my spirit which assists my employment sympathetically.

The doctor-as-tool may seem apparent, but it is not. We habitually grant healthier concern to our paraphernalia than to our selves, thus rising monotonous, from time to time even wrecked, from inadequate of preservation. Communities approach us, due to who we are. They are glad once we enclose with the finest tools, but they recognize that without the capacity to use the tools, and the heart to stay off grouchiness, the doctor is not much use.

In a previous week the fresh patient looked astonished while I alleged that the management for her enduring red eye would be, well, brain operation that devoid of it, she would pass away. She had come in, expecting more drops. But my eyes had seen the curve of her conjunctival blood vessels. My brain had noticed them and strained a finale.

My hands released the drawer, sanded off the stethoscope, and positioned it on, strangely enough, on her cranium. I listened the weak swoosh sounds – a seep out from a vessel in her brain, spurting out blood with each heartbeat. The escape was increasing the force inside the spacious sinus, sluggish drainage of blood from her missing eye. This was reasoning her unceasing “conjunctivitis” which no drops seemed to heal. I put my Littman Lightweight II SE Stethoscope back into the drawer, and grinned, perceptively understand that machinery can be attractive, but it’s not what matters most.

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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Fall in love with Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope (Part 1)

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope

This is my first week in a medical school and Littmann, who is the most popular medical tools inventor, was on the university grounds providing the latest product of Littmann stethoscopes to each new scholar. The no cost Littman Lightweight II SE Stethoscope was plain – the disc to put on the thoracic, the hollow tube to bring the reverberation, the ear buds. Littmann also carry the luminous models together, all production of Littman Lightweight II SE Stethoscope appear to be acceptable, however not extremely sexy, similar to an uninviting costume in a space occupied by an evening gowns.

The humid sensation of the entire stethoscopes was the pink color Littman Lightweight II SE Stethoscope. It could be seen swathe around the collar of all great nurses.Ahh, the Littman Lightweight II SE Stethoscope. Her reverberation arresting apparatus was akin to an affectionate hand that would laze soothingly on whichever thoracic. Her cylinder body with devoted transference to divide ear channels overlooked every single voice except the single one which it was aim upon. Her spongy ergonometric ear buds were approximating lips that would speak softly a charming lub-dub hooked on your ears.

Littman Lightweight II SE Stethoscope was clothed in stylish black with gray garnishes. March with her all the way through the wards, and hearts pulsation, thrash skip, mutter go up for you and your Littman Lightweight II SE Stethoscope. Your unfastened white coat flaps, send-off those with less significant stethoscopes staring favorably, with a wrench of jealousy, after that speeding up to maintain the rhythm. Wait with her in sufficient time and she would whorl upbeat hooked on a wonderful corona, revealing your means.

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Tuesday, August 5, 2008

The Color of Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope

This world is full of color. It makes the life that we live so wonderful and harmony. Sometimes color can also describe personality. People says red symbolize action, confidence, courage and vitality, green symbolize life, nature, fertility, and well being, blue symbolize youth, spirituality, truth and peace and other colors symbolize so on and so forth. All in all, colors and human are inseparable partners. Littmann understand this nature and needs. Thus, for the Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope, the company had prepared 17 different colors of tube that you can choose based on your favoritism. I feel unlucky because I can’t share all the 17 colors, but here, I will show the pictures of 6 Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope with different colors that commonly choose by the users.

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscopes with Black tube




















Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscopes with Burgundy tube




















Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscopes with Caribbean Blue tube





















Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscopes with Lilac tube





















Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscopes with Ceil Blue tube





















Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscopes with Sea foam Green tube




















More colors that you can choose!


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How to Use Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope?

Stethoscope is being used by medical personnel to examine or to access patient’s inner sounds such as heart sounds, breathing sounds, bowel sounds and all may or may not come with additional sounds. Any additional sound may suggest abnormalities that can present in the patient’s internal organ.

To get the best result that help in making a diagnosis, the auscultation need to be done skillfully and thoroughly with the emotional comfort of the patient remains as the main priority. In order to master the art of the auscultation, medical personnel include medical students need to practice their skills. Professional and ethical behavior while doing the stethoscopes examination should be followed.

How to use Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope?

The principles of using Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope are more and less the same as how you use other kind of stethoscope. Do make sure that the room where the examination will be done is quiet and warm so that the patient will be calm sufficiently. Hold the chestpiece of your Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope between your palms to warm is a little bit before you place it on the patient’s chest or the anterior part of the elbow or any part of the body that you want to listen to. Place the earpiece into your ears. Sometimes, an outside noise can be annoying. You should not touch or rub the tubing or chest piece against any object to minimize the noisy sounds. Start your listening by paying attention to internal sounds which can be normal or abnormal.

If you are working in pediatrics ward, you might found it extremely difficult to subject children to stethoscope exams. You can encounter this problem by using a funny stethoscope cover to attract them as well as reduced the level of anxiety in them. The stethoscope covers might comes in a variety of shade includes animals and cartoon characters. Most of the time, it works well by distracting the attentions of the children, enabling you to proceed your examination with the Littmann Lightweight II Stethoscope.

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Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope History

It was back in the year of 1963 when a Professor from the well known Harvard Medical School name David Littman had made-up a stethoscope with new revolution. And nowadays, any stethoscope produced by the Littmann Company is recognized for its excellent and quality. After 1816 when Dr. Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec, invented the very first stethoscope, the design of the stethoscope had changed a lot and Littmann had come with an added value eminence of it when it comes to encounter the difference between low pitch and high pitch sounds during auscultation.

Based on that, Littmann had come up with an idea of dual side stethoscope which later had been invented to most of the Littmann’s stethoscope product include Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope. The idea of a dual side stethoscope is about a chestpiece with an open side for listening to low pitch sounds and a closed side which filtered out lower pitched sounds and let the high pitch sounds becomes more prominent. Furthermore, he has incorporated his stethoscope with additional features which made it more comfortable for the practitioner to use as well as light and practical to carry such as what we can have in the Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope. The level of sound produced by new Littman Stethoscope design had as well improved significantly in its quality compared to what they were before when the 3M Corporation accept Dr. Littmann’s Company, Cardiosonic Inc to join them in 1967.

At that time, 3M as a world leader in health care products had continue to expand and progress the Littmann stethoscope and today we can have a long list of stethoscope with quality such as 3M Littmann Cardiology Stethoscope, Classic II Stethoscope and not at least, Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethescope.

In 1987 a major product development breakthrough was made by 3M engineers when they introduced a tunable diaphragm technology to the Littmann stethoscope. This new tunable diaphragm equipment permits the medical health personnel to adjust the pressure on the chestpiece, for them to confer from bell mode to diaphragm mode and vice-versa. Thus, the chestpiece need not to be moved for different sound frequencies optimization. This technology is one of the highly significant breakthroughs in the art of auscultation with the fact that, the volume of the low frequency sounds will be amplified by a diaphragm rather than a bell and the amplification itself is more visible to the ear and clearer. However it is sad to say that the Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope is not equipped by this advancement.

However, based on the experience that Littmann’s Company have in developing stethoscope, Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope is still a stethoscope that is standing on his own standard and legacy of the stethoscope in its category.

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Monday, August 4, 2008

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope Covers

An earpieces and chestpiece of a Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope is connected by a 28 inch (71.1cm) rubber tubes. The function of the tubes is to transmit vibratory sound from the chestpiece to the listener’s ear. This rubber tubes is fragile and need to be taken care cautiously. From time to time, as the task as medical health personnel require us to move from one patient to another patient, the health of the stethoscope tube is unconsciously neglected. The delicate tubes of your Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope may be damaged from wear and tear. This, if happen, may impair the sound quality served by the stethoscope and it will make it difficult for the health personnel to correctly diagnose the problems that the patient might have.

However, there is a way which can be used to protect your Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope tube. This approach has been used by people whose their works require a stethoscope most of the time. As you can see, many doctors nowadays love to personalize their stethoscope by putting a cover over the tube. The nurses did not left far. I have saw nurses in pediatrics ward use animals shape covers to protect their Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope. Some prefer to use stethoscope cover with material like denim or cotton for the reason that they want to retain their professional looks.

There are several reasons why should you protect your Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope with a stethoscope cover.

1. The stethoscope cover can protect your fragile rubber tubes of Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope from wear and tear. It provides an extra layer of protection that extends the life of the stethoscope.

2. As the quality of the Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope is concerned, you are not the only one who using it. Some of your associate might have the same stethoscope, even worst, with the exact same color. Having a unique, personalize stethoscope cover, may help you identifying your stethoscope if it is happened to be misplaced. This can always a happen in a hospital which well known as a hectic place. A doctor may borrow your loved Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope and forget to return it back to you. For that reason, stethoscope cover provides the outmost identification of your stethoscope. You can also have a special cover with your name on it. This will make things a lot easier. If your Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope is misplaced, you do not need to try so hard to find it, others will return it back your hand safely as they know that it is yours!

3. If you will be working mainly in a pediatric ward, having a funny or friendly designs of stethoscope covers such as animals or cartoons can have a calming effect on nervous children. There is a calculative prove that these types of cover s can distract and calm anxious patients, allowing the doctor to work without much resistance from the child.

In term of price, the stethoscope covers are not that expensive. It is usually less than $20.00 which makes it affordable by most medical personnel.

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