A Thinklabs Exclusive.

This package enables you to record and playback sounds between the ds32a and Sony IC Recorder, as well as record lectures with the Sony Recorder. Recordings can be played back via the ds32a, or transferred via USB to your computer for editing, visualization of waveforms, and playback. This package is used extensively by educators, researchers, telemedicine, and electronic medical records.

The ds32a is a diagnostic stethoscope with unsurpassed natural sound quality. User-friendly design and 50X Amplification provides the power to adjust for faint heart sounds, obese patients, or noisy environments. Outstanding performance and ease-of-use for every clinician, with uncompromised features for advanced users. From BP to ED to ICU, from heart and lung exams to digital recording, the ds32a does it all.

The recording package includes:

- Thinklabs ds32a Digital Stethoscope with 3-Year Intelligent Protection Plan

- Sony ICD-UX71 Digital MP3 Voice Recorder with USB Interface

- Thinklabs Phonocardiography Software for Visualization, Editing
   and Playback of Recordings (Free Download)

Recording Heart Sounds and Lung Sounds
Thinklabs stethoscopes enable you to record heart sounds or lung sounds directly to your mp3 recorder. Now you can capture any interesting sounds on the fly. You can also listen to your recordings through your stethoscope or headphones.

"The sound is so accurately recorded you'll think you're listening to the patient."


Applications for the recording package

Clinical Practice - Capture auscultation sounds on your iPod and incorporate them into your Electronic Medical Records (EMR). This is useful for tracking a patient's progress so that heart or lung sounds can be compared with previous visits. Physicians have used this to determine whether drug dosages need to be adjusted, whether patients have improved or regressed, etc. You can also email recordings to colleagues for second opinions.

Academic Teaching - Collect interesting sounds or build dynamic sound libraries for teaching. The quality of Thinklabs recordings is vastly superior to the typical audio materials used to teach auscultation. Now you can create sound sets specific to your own teaching curriculum.

Sounds can be distributed to students via email, posted on websites or university intranets, or burned onto CDs. Studies have shown that students who listen repetitively to auscultation sounds improve their recognition rates from 30% to almost 90%.

Student Evaluations - Record specific sounds and incorporate them into the patient record when developing standardized patient cases or examination materials. One medical school has reported equipping students with Thinklabs stethoscopes and iPods and required students to record the sounds they hear on rounds. Examiners then listen to the recordings to compare them with findings claimed by the students.

Learning and Teaching Auscultation - Fellows, Residents and Medical Students can record sounds for presentation, journal clubs, and second opinions. Now a student, upon hearing something suspicious or interesting, can later consult with mentors to verify findings. This significantly enhances learning opportunities.

Presentations, Documentation, Journal Articles, Podcasts - Thinklabs Phonocardiography software allows you to upload your recordings, display, edit and annotate them.

This exclusive combination of Stethoscope, Recorder and Software is an example of Thinklabs System Solutions in action - the synergy that makes the whole greater than the sum of the parts.

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