• Wireless & Portable
• Students & Insructor hear Patient Simultaneously
• Excellent Sound Quality
• Graphic Equalizer Filter allows Accentuation or Attenuation of Narrow Frequency Bands
• Use at Bedside under battery operation
• Use in Classroom under line power
• HeartMan Infrared Headphones included
• Headphones have Individual Volume Control
• Headphones shut off automatically when removed
• Send Sounds Wirelessly to PC for Phono Display and Recording
• Saves Time at the Bedside
• Easier on the Patient

Bedside Teaching

The SimulScope is an instrument for teaching auscultation at the bedside or in the classroom.  It is wireless so that students are not tied to the instructor when in the patient’s room.  It sets up in seconds. 

The SimulScope system consists of small, portable, battery-operated (or line-operated) infrared transmitter with low frequency stethoscope that is taken to the bedside.

Each student and the instructor wear a HeartMan Infrared Headphone.  Everyone hears the same patient simultaneously. The instructor knows exactly what the student is hearing.  The SimulScope has a series of discrete filters that allow the accentuation or attenuation of eight different frequency bands.  This permits the instructor to accentuate a grade 1 murmur, a faint AI blow or any other sound.  He/she can attenuate or accentuate other sounds or murmurs for purposes of teaching.  Sounds can be recorded at the bedside and played back through the SimulScope in the classroom, if desired.

The advantage to the physician is that he can teach multiple students from the same patient simultaneously and effectively.  Because of the design of the system, the instructor knows exactly what each student is hearing.  It is much easier on the patient as is only one stethoscope placed on him or her.  These patients are often very ill and the least interruption for them is best. Because the instructor can teach all students simultaneously, a great deal of time is saved while on rounds.

Another model of the SimulScope allows the user to set up a 3-lead ECG for determining the onset of systole in patients with faster heart rates such as in atrial fibrillation or pediatrics.

Classroom Instruction

The SimulScope also can be used in the classroom with patients, the CardioSim VII Digital Heart Sound Simulator, PneumoSim Digital Breath Sound Simulator or Learning Cardiac Auscultation or Learning Lung Sounds CD-ROMs.

Visual Display

With the Wireless HeartMan PC Receiver(shown at right), sounds are sent simultaneously to a PC. The Wireless HeartMan PC Receiver receives the sound and displays it on the computer screen as a phonocardiogram. The learning process is enhanced when student view the sounds while hearing them.

The phonocardiogram is produced by either the pocketMONIOTR Software or the StethView Digital Recording System software.  The phonocardiogram can be seen and recorded.  See pocket MONITOR software or StethView Digital Recording System.

Other uses for the SimulScope include:

• Telemedicine
• With Harvey, the Cardiology Patient Manikin
• Isolation ward use
• Classroom use.

The  SimulScope is an effective teaching tool because:

• it allows multiple students to be taught simultaneously
• exceptional sound quality
• much easier on the patient
• the instructor knows exactly what the student is hearing
• saves a great deal of time
•  it is wireless or line operated
• it is effective in teaching or clinical use

®SimulScope is a registered trademark of Cardionics, Inc.