Customer Reviews

Prestige Medical Traditional Spraque Stethoscope, Hot Pink

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

I bought 3 of these based on the glowing reviews. Here's what I received. One of the 3 doesn't work at all. Can't hear a thing through it. The other 2 work well. So quality control is terrible. Worse though, the material used for the connector tubing, the part that is colored, it has a terrible odor that has not gone away with time. Not only does it smell bad, but whatever causes the odor comes off on your fingers from handling the material and your fingers smell of the odor long after using the stethoscope. This makes these intolerable to use.

I am a new nursing assistant student and needed a stethoscope for the skills lab and clinicals that are fast approaching. The uniform website that I bought my student uniform from and the school bookstore both recommended this stethoscope for students. I wished I had not bought it because I cannot hear anything through it. I need a scope to listen to blood pressure sounds with, and this doesn't cut it. Might as well give this to your kid or use it for a Halloween costume. I am now trying to search for a Littmann or Welch-Allyn scope, which I should have bought in the first place.

Can't hear well. Got one from my school's stethoscope ceremony...all it's good for is display.

Great product...I am a nurse and this is the best scope to hear from..liked the price!

great stethoscope..the pink color looks great, and it works really well...very fast shipping i ordered it late and got it in time for christmas

We gave this as a graduation gift to young lady finishing nursing school. She loved it. Pink and green are very important in her life. She raved about it.

This is the same stethoscope my school gave me just a different color so i knew it was going to be a good one ! I would tell anyone who doesnt have the money to buy an expensive littman to def buy this one! I can hear great while taking blood pressure and respiration, awesome buy!

Advertisement said I was ordering a Prestige Medical stethoscope. Got the product in the mail today... It is NOT a prestige medical, but some other off brand. I am very disgusted due to the fact that I am leaving for a clinical affiliation soon and evidently do not have a good stethoscope.

This stethoscope is good as a "starter" for people just getting into health care (e.g. nursing students, etc.). There were a few downsides: It's a little heavy around the neck (as someone had mentioned earlier). It is difficult to hear heart and lung sounds in in people who are overweight or women with lots of breast tissue and it can get tight on the ears.

For the price and quality, it's decent. I was able to successfully use it throughout nursing school. I could sometimes hear adventitious heart and lung sounds with it (when it wasn't even noted by the nurse or documented in the patient's chart) and sometimes not, but that came with practice. I recommend it for temporary use, but would buy a stethoscope of better quality when officially practicing in the field.

I bought this stethoscope for myself & my several co-workers(RN) last year.
Quality of sound is not good to listen chest or lung sound. It might be OK to use to check blood pressure.