http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/freedomscope-wireless-stethoscope-pitter-patters-over-bluetooth/ Engadget Comments for FreedomScope wireless stethoscope pitter patters over Bluetooth http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/freedomscope-wireless-stethoscope-pitter-patters-over-bluetooth/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/freedomscope-wireless-stethoscope-pitter-patters-over-bluetooth/Aug 7th 2008 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/freedomscope-wireless-stethoscope-pitter-patters-over-bluetooth/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/freedomscope-wireless-stethoscope-pitter-patters-over-bluetooth/Aug 7th 2008 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/freedomscope-wireless-stethoscope-pitter-patters-over-bluetooth/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/freedomscope-wireless-stethoscope-pitter-patters-over-bluetooth/
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However, for its intended use (hasmat teams, first responders, etc) this could really be valuable. Is it going to diagnose a specific cardiac disorder? No, but it will let them tell quickly if a person is alive without having to find a possibly very weak pulse.

That having been said, we have had the technology to do this for what - 10 or more years? The fact that nobody had bothered to put it together before this point tells me that the demand is as limited as I suspected.]]>Aug 7th 2008 12:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/freedomscope-wireless-stethoscope-pitter-patters-over-bluetooth/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/freedomscope-wireless-stethoscope-pitter-patters-over-bluetooth/(Else, bluetooth stereo headphones would've never sold in the first place... )

In fact, this technology can be pretty useful -- doctors can now also record cardiac data in digital form directly out of a stethoscope without the need for other bulky instruments... This innovation may open up a new wave of medical instruments... :-)

(As to why this comes so late if technology used existed 10 years before... It could have a lot to do with hardware, and costs. For example: almost every laptop sold today has bluetooth compatibility, etc... )]]>Aug 7th 2008 4:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/freedomscope-wireless-stethoscope-pitter-patters-over-bluetooth/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/freedomscope-wireless-stethoscope-pitter-patters-over-bluetooth/


but it does make some good wireless headphones, this will work fine.

unless as the other guy put it: you have a heart murmer.]]>Aug 7th 2008 7:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/freedomscope-wireless-stethoscope-pitter-patters-over-bluetooth/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/freedomscope-wireless-stethoscope-pitter-patters-over-bluetooth/]]>Aug 7th 2008 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/freedomscope-wireless-stethoscope-pitter-patters-over-bluetooth/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/07/freedomscope-wireless-stethoscope-pitter-patters-over-bluetooth/
This would be great for physical therapy monitoring if the patient were say, swimming.

Also, a friend of mine had a heart condition where she had to wear these nasty heart monitors with wires to a pack on her hip for over a month for diagnosis. They'd get tangled in her clothes all the time and come off, then her phone would start ringing and someone from the monitoring office had to tell her to reattach a pad.]]>Aug 9th 2008 2:07AM