Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope is a Long Stethoscope

As has been mentioned earlier,

“Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope consists of a shallow bell-shaped device with a clear stiff diaphragm, connected to the ear pieces by flexible tubing and a hollow metal headset. The chest-piece consists of two sides that can be placed against the patient for sensing sound - a diaphragm (plastic disc) or bell (hollow cup). Literally, Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope will operate on the transmission of sound from the chest piece, via air-filled hollow tubes, to the listener’s ears.”

The length of the stethoscope does play its own role as well. With the length of 28 inch (71.1 cm), Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope is considered as a long stethoscope. What is long stethoscope? Long stethoscope is a stethoscope with long tube irrespective of the tube color, for sure. The length of the tube will affect the resonant frequency. As when the increasing of the stethoscope’s tube length will decrease the resonant frequency, Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope may provide a better response to lower frequency sound. Since human ear is least sensitive to low frequency sound and unfortunately, many heart sounds fall below 150 Hz, using long stethoscope such as Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope will give some advantage to the health professional in their auscultation.

Even though many has said that Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope almost perfectly suitable for nurses, the fact that it is a long stethoscope make it also suitable for a practitioner who love to wear the stethoscope around his neck or those who are tall and have a long arm. As to reduce the incidence of the nosocomial infection practitioner - patient interrogation, a long stethoscope such as Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope can provide the distance needed by both parties with an addition that it allows practitioners to bend at a minimum angle, and subsequently avoids undue stress on their lower back.

Besides all that has been told above, a long stethoscope such as Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope may generally provide a better auditory response and efficiently help in surgical settings to monitor heat and respiratory sounds and measure the core body temperature even in anesthetized patients.

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Comparison of Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope With Other Littmann Stethoscope Products

Even though a stethoscope is generally used to listen to sounds in your body that reveal the state of your health, different stethoscope has its own different features and one might be more suitable for different doctor in different specialties. The question of sourcing the stethoscope is one that every health professional faces during some time in his career. Several queries that might be there in your mind are:

1. Where can you start off with?
2. What is the level entry stethoscope that an intern or a medical practitioner can use?
3. If you are looking for a specialized stethoscope, what alternatives are available?
4. Are you looking for outstanding acoustics, or tunable diaphragms?
5. Do you want a stainless steel chestpiece, non-chill rim and soft sealing eartips for your stethoscope?

Above all, the important thing is to research your option and to reflect on the provision of the facility to your cost of acquiring the stethoscope. You need to consider your needs precisely, compare the price from different suppliers and look if there are any special offers available. This is one of the key factors to get the most suitable stethoscope at the best price for your very best need.

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope is best for basic clinical use, primary assessment, and initial triage. However, there are several Littman Stethoscopes in the market and I hope that the information I provide below might settled some questions about the comparison between Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope with other littmann stethoscope product:

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope VS Master Classic II

A Master Classic II is clear even in a place where there is a lot of ambient noise, such as a lorry. Therefore, Master Classic II is more suitable for doctors working in mobile hospitals, or other places where there are visitors, children, etc compared to Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope.

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope VS Cardiology III

Cardiology III is suitable for listening to lung sounds along with apical pulses. This stethoscope is also a favorite with pediatricians, as it comes with a pediatric-sized diaphragm. This scope lacks a bell. But it has been found that by pushing down on either side of a Cardiology III, one can get the same effect as a bell. This, this all-round quality of a Cardiology III also makes it sought after by med school students compared to the Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope.

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope VS Littman II Pediatric Stethoscope

As the name suggests, this is a scope meant especially for pediatrics. Although some pediatrics favor the Cardiology III, because of the latter’s superior acoustic quality, this scope comes with a bell, which is missing in the case of a Cardiology III. In pediatric setting, definitely Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope is not included in one of the choice that you want to consider.

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope VS Classic III

While the Classic II is among the most popular stethoscopes, doctors prefer the Classic III when they treat patients suffering from BP. Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope on the other hand, is still the best stethoscope for general purpose and blood pressure taking.

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope VS Model 3000

The manufacturers claim that Model 3000 stethoscope is technologically equipped to reduce ambient sound, while amplifying organ sounds, simultaneously. Some users claim to be attracted by innovation in these stethoscopes. They cite the example of different designs of ear-tips available, to cater to different needs of different users. They also say that the settings can be changed using one hand, leaving the other free for any other work, such as checking the blood pressure of the patient. Others claim to like the variations in size, weight, ease-of-use, or longevity. From indications, this scope could become an all-round favorite of various specialists, in the near future. On the other hand, based on the quality that is provided by Model 3000 stethoscope, Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope will left far behind.

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Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope Features

Since 1963, after Professor David Littmann of Harvard Medical School invented a stethoscope which had revolutionize the world of medical auscultation, the quality and technology of the stethoscope has been improvise significantly. Littmann became a trusted brand for stethoscope. They had produced a number of stethoscopes with different model and each of them has their own unique features. One of the stethoscope that owned by them is a Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope. The features of this stethoscope is as what has been written below:

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope Product Positioning

• General Purpose

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope Overall Performance (1-10 Scale)

• 5 (five)

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope Chestpiece Design and Technology

• Machined Aluminum Two-Sided

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope Binaurals

• Single Lumen

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope Tunable Diaphragm

• Diaphragm is not tunable

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope Warranty

• 2 Years

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope Headset Material

• Std. Diameter Aerospace Alloy

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope Eartip Type

• Soft-sealing

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope Extra Eartips

• No extra eartips provided
  

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope Special Adapters

• No special adapters provided
  

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope Standard Length

• 28"/71 cm

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope Total Weight

• 90 grams

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope Chestpiece Weight

• 25 grams

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope Diaphragm Diameter

• 1.75"/4.4 cm

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope Bell or Small Diaphragm Diameter

• 1.25"/3.2 cm

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope Main Application Areas

• Limited Physical Assessment and Blood Pressure

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How Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope Works?

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope, as the same as other stethoscope is used as a part of non-invasive examination by health care personnel to quickly assess the patient’s condition. The Littmann Lightweight II SE stethoscope mainly used for general purposes and to check blood pressure by listening for the restored blood flow as pressure is released from the BP cuff. In addition, the Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope still works very well as a diagnostic instrument which is used by various health care professionals to listen to or auscultate a patient’s heart, lungs, various pulse points and abdomen. Besides regular or irregular rhythm of the heartbeat, Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope can also detects additional sound for the heart such as murmur or wheezing and rhonci in the lung.

Back to medical ancient history, physicians used to place their ears directly on a patient’s front chest of back in order to listen to the heart and lung sounds. This technique is also called as “immediate or direct auscultation”. However this well known practice has been used in little since it introduce some kind of discomfort to the physician and much more to the patient. It was in 1816 which is 10 years before he passed away, Dr. Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec incvented the first stethoscope. He is also the author of the classic treatise De auscultation's Mediate (On Mediate Auscultation), published in August, 1819.

In the preface of the book he did tell us how he has been inspired to invent the instrument. He said,

"In 1816 I was consulted by a young woman labouring under general symptoms of diseased heart, and in whose case percussion and the application of the hand were of little avail on account of the great degree of fatness. The other method just mentioned [direct auscultation] being rendered inadmissible by the age and sex of the patient, I happened to recollect a simple and well-known fact in acoustics, . . . the great distinctness with which we hear the scratch of a pin at one end of a piece of wood on applying our ear to the other. Immediately, on this suggestion, I rolled a quire of paper into a kind of cylinder and applied one end of it to the region of the heart and the other to my ear, and was not a little surprised and pleased to find that I could thereby perceive the action of the heart in a manner much more clear and distinct than I had ever been able to do by the immediate application of my ear."

Since then, the world start to discover that internal sounds could be isolated and amplified through a tube, making examinations less intrusive and easier to interpret and thus, many studies has been done for improvisation of the instrument. Start from just a rigid wooden cylinder with a funnel, stethoscope has evolved into the modern instrument which typically has two chest pieces connected to the ear pieces by tubing such as what Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope looks like today.

Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope consists of a shallow bell-shaped device with a clear stiff diaphragm, connected to the ear pieces by flexible tubing and a hollow metal headset. The chest-piece consists of two sides that can be placed against the patient for sensing sound - a diaphragm (plastic disc) or bell (hollow cup). Literally, Littmann Lightweight II SE Stethoscope will operate on the transmission of sound from the chest piece, via air-filled hollow tubes, to the listener’s ears. For example, if the diaphragm is placed on the patient, body sounds vibrate the diaphragm, creating acoustic pressure waves which travel up the tubing to the listener's ears. In the other hand, if the bell is placed on the patient, the vibrations of the skin directly produce acoustic pressure waves traveling up to the listener's ears. While the diaphragm transmits high frequency sounds, the bell transmits low frequency sounds. Both have its own diagnostic quality, thus it is a need for the medical health personnel to auscultate using both sides during the physical examination.

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