jefnando
HeadWizerJoined: Jan. 14, 2009
Locale: Simferopol, Ukraine
Total Posts: 233 |  posted 02-11-2009 10:18 PM CST (US)   |  | 
[Quoting cmoy]Actually, I wonder why they don't make stethoscopes more like headphones. Seems to me they'd be more comfortable than something with tubes that press against the inner ear.
Yes, headphones and earphones are more comfortable compared to stethoscope, but it is not practical at all if stethoscopes were built like headphones or earphones. The plus side of stethoscope even though they are uncomfortable, they can be removed easily and hanged with the earpiece clinging to the neck(thus freeing the hands immediately), also the stethoscopes were built in a way that there is no need to apply pressure to the ear piece to isolate the ammbient sound from the outside in order to get a clearer sound coming from the tubes, the earpiece does that for you, and It is acceptable for stethoscope to be uncomfortable but efficient because no one listens to a stethoscope for more than 5 minutes.
[Quoting cmoy]You could even build an interface into the amplifier to record heart sounds into an mp3 recorder for later analysis or to keep on file. That would be for the doctor's office of the future, when they'd keep audio files along with image and video files in the medical records.
This is not very practical as well, doctors don't really need to keep audio files of heart sound because they can always listen to the heart sound of a patient when they need(present sound is more important than past). Why waste the time and money to do so then? |
