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Thinklabs Stethoscope System Solutions |
Thinklabs offers solutions to problems that have long challenged the
teaching and clinical use of auscultation. Quite simply, we are
bringing the stethoscope into the 21st Century.
Thinklabs Stethoscope System Solutions transforms the power of the stethoscope, using powerful software and devices you already own - iPod, Notebook computer - to provide a gateway to completely new auscultation capability.
Thinklabs Systems Thinking - the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts. Wherever you see this symbol, it means you can innovate in your practice, your hospital, your medical school.
Systems Solutions in Action
Software and Internet Connectivity - Record sounds on your PC or Mac
Notebook computer, Upload sounds from your iPod, and then display
Waveforms, Spectrograms, edit and manage sounds files. Upload and
download sounds files, email patient sounds, build patient sound
libraries and more.
iPod Recording and Playback - Record sounds with CD quality, Play them with perfect fidelity, Upload them to your PC or Mac.
2nd Listener External Headphones - Plug external headphones into your stethoscope for a second listener. Valuable for teaching, mentoring, and second opinions. The second headphones can be regular headphones, or a second Thinklabs Stethoscope.
Multi-Link - Connect your Thinklabs Stethoscope or iPod to the Multi-Link to facilitate group listening for teaching sessions. (Coming Fall 2007).
Thinklabs Systems Philosophy
Auscultation has always been difficult to teach, challenging to learn, and clinically limited by the fact that sounds had to be described in words rather than recorded.
Imagine a world in which X rays were viewed on a screen while the
patient is present, but never recorded on film or disk? The clinician
would be limited to describing findings in a written document - no
second opinion, no close examination by a specialist, no visual record
for follow-up comparison. So it is with stethoscope sound. There for the patient exam, and gone when the patient leaves.
At Thinklabs, we believe that the stethoscope is an "extension of the clinician". The stethoscope is only as good as the skill level of the professional using it. We thus see the problem as a "system" problem and it is incumbent on us to develop not only a superb stethoscope, but the tools to ensure that the stethoscope is used to its full potential. We call this the Systems Solution.
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