Using the E-Scope for hearing aids?

[Meowstic]

Hello fellow nurses! I am a nursing student and I am also hearing impaired with BTE hearing aids. Very recently I got a chance to test out the Cardionics E-scope. I am very inexperienced with this stuff still since I am just starting out the program this fall semester.

So my thing is, the stethoscope came with headphones and I tested those out, and I could hear the heart pretty well, but when switching to the breathing frequency, I could barely make those out. I also have an Oticon steamer with a DAI that I was hoping to use with the stethoscope but I could barely hear anything, if at all through there. So I'm wondering if I just don't know how to use it quite yet or what.

So if you have the same thing as me, let me know vital information or what you learned so I can be fully prepared for the program! And if you have any other suggestions, let me know as well.

Thank you! :)

[Lisa.fnp]

I also am hearing impaired and own the Cardionics E-Scope II Electronic Clinical Stethoscope. Had it for over 7 years when they first came out and paid over $600.00. They came down a lot since then and I here they are half of that now. You have the best unit ever made. I do not wear the headset nor do I recommend it. I'm deaf in one ear and wear a hearing aid with profound hearing loss in the other. When I was a ICU bedside nurse I would just remove my hearing aid and use the stethoscope when doing an assessments. I would of never of passed nursing school if it wasn't for the Cardionics E-Scope. It's the best and the company is amazing. When my unit was about 4 years old I had some muffling noises. I sent it back overnight shipped it back to be looked at. They fixed it and overnight shipped it back without charge. It was a 4 day turn around and out of warrantee, they are the best in my book.

When it comes to nursing school and later at work and being hearing impaired I found out the best thing for me was never talk about my hearing problem. I would sit in the front row when I was in school and only once I talked to one of my professors about my hearing loss because she would always talk facing the black board when writing and not the classroom and for the life of me I couldn't understand what she was saying. I talked to her privately and it never was a issue after that. We are friends to this day.

Down play your hearing loss because you think they understand but they don't, how could they? I have the Beltone force hearing aid and I'm very fortunate that I'm an excellent lip reader.