What
makes the littman stethoscope the most popular stethoscope amongst
health practitioners, doctors, cardiologists and nursing educators
worldwide? This overview traces the development of the littman
stethoscope, explain the features that make the 3M littman stethoscope
an outstanding stethoscope and show why it is the preferred stethoscope
of doctors worldwide today.
When it comes to health and the dignostic instruments and tools that
are required to service health, the factors of quality, precision and
accuracy are of the highest priority.
For the medical doctor or nurse, nothing is more relevant and useful
than the use of the stethoscope. Ask any doctor or health professional,
and he would most likely be using a littman stethoscope.
It was in 1963 that the Harvard Medical School Professor David
Littmann, a renowned cardiologist, invented a stethoscope which would
revolutionize the world of medical auscultation.
Named after him, this invention continued to improve and develop,
resulting in a highly acclaimed stethoscope named aptly, the 3M
Littmann Cardiology Stethoscope.
This stethoscope is uniquely equipped to help the medical doctor pick
up difficult-to-hear heart, lung and other body sounds admist
distracting noises.
Using, the 3M´s new Ambient Noise Reduction technology, it is possible
to now reduce distracting room noise by an average of 75% (- 12
decibels) over the bell and diaphragm operating range. This is
convincingly the most important feature of the littman stethoscope.
Apart from this, the new tunable diaphragm technology used in Littman
Stethoscopes, allows the health practitioner to alter the pressure on
the chest piece in order to change from bell mode to diaphragm mode and
vice-versa. This makes it very versatile for adaptive use.
As a result, the technology has led to a whole new line of Littmann
stethoscopes including the electronic Littmann Master Cardiology
Stethoscope for infant, pediatric, and veterinary disciplines.
The Littmann stethoscopes are among the most popular stethoscopes for
cardiologists where Littman stethoscopes like Littman cardiology III,
Littmann cardiology STC, and Littmann Master classic II are used for
both adult and pediatric auscultation.
One particular innovation is that the stethoscope carries a large side
of the diaphragm and a small side diaphragm. The large side of the
diaphragm is for adults and the small side is specially designed for
sound with pediatric patients or extremely thin adult patients. This
makes it a truly versatile tool for the doctor or nurse or cardiologist.
In addition to the standard adult size, Littman offers a one-inch pediatric bell and the infant bell.
As nurses form the bedrock of the health system and require
stethoscopes,they are not left behind. There are active online nursing
forum communities where nurses from around the world discuss and share
information about the use of medical and nursing tools such as the
nursing littmann stethoscope, and there is a nurses' kit including a
littman stethoscope for members at special price.
The next time we see a doctor with a stethoscope, the chances are that
he is using a littman stethoscope, and we can be grateful to the
efforts of the brillant cardiologist Professor David Littmann.
