Prestige Medical Sprague Stethoscope Review

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(More customer reviews)I like the Sprague-Rappaport style stethoscopes personally - I like the multitude of attachments they come with, I like the heavier weight (they just feel more durable to me somehow), and if they fit the ears well, they can be comfortable enough for my usage as a nursing student. My local uniform shop only carries Littmanns and Prestige Medical so when I was shopping for an inexpensive yet effective stethoscope (stethoscopes often wander away during hospital clinicals!), I was confined to this Prestige (I didn't really like the Light version of the Sprague FWIW). I do recommend this stethoscope to students and nurses with one caveat: the first one I bought didn't really transmit sounds very well. I looked online for ways to test a stethoscope and one site said to switch to the bell attachment, place the bell on the skin surface and then quickly remove it. The user should feel a difference in pressure in his/her ears if the internal mechanism's seal is airtight and thus an effective transmitter of sound. The first steth did not do this very well at all. I exchanged it for another of the same exact model (although a different tube color) and the new stethoscope was great - it passed this test with flying colors. So your mileage may vary, but if you can try out different individual stethoscopes, do so to compare them. Or if you order one through Amazon and it doesn't meet your expectations, exchange it with them; Amazon is really good about returns ans exchanges.
Overall, the new steth is more than adequate for my rookie ears; I can hear my lab partner's heart sounds at all five points at the anterior, lung sounds are clear, and bowel sounds are easily detectable. Some people do not like the double tubing because it causes extraneous noise artifacts. While this is true to a degree, the user can quickly learn to figure out what is 'junk' noise and what is important during auscultation.
The multiple accessories that this stethoscope comes with increase its versatility, especially to the student - I have a bell for infants, and a bell and diaphragm for peds as well as for adults. That's great for my various clinical rotations I have coming up.
The stethoscope is pretty comfortable for me to use - I like the softer 'default' ear tips that it ships with, though you get a choice of two others as well.
The low price of this model coupled with it's versatility make it a good choice, in my opinion. Many of the professional nurses at my hospital this semester use this stethoscope, so that should say something about its effectiveness and durability. And for somebody like me who puts things down and forgets them: the scope is priced so that if I DID lose it, I wouldn't be to broken up over it.
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The most widely used stethoscope in the healthcare industry. With five stethoscopes-in-one design, this Sprague comes with a full accessory pouch with interchangeable parts to customize to the user's needs. Features dual 22" PVC tubing for clear sound transmission and threaded soft eartips. The rugged chrome plated zinc alloy chestpiece and chrome plated brass binurals are built to withstand the most demanding of working environments.

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