 Hi everyone, so my name is Claire Carmichael and I am a newly qualified nurse awaiting my NMC pin registration. So today I've got a really exciting task of reviewing the Stemoscope. Now this is something I actually saw on my friend Oli's channel, which is PostgradMed. Please go and follow his channel, watch his videos, he's amazing, he's so informative, no matter what field of nursing or medics you are in, please check it out. But anyway, he was showing everybody the Stemoscope and I was like, oh my God, this is amazing. This gadget is fantastic, let me have a go. And Stemoscope kindly gave me an amazing little freebie to test out and try for myself. So I'm gonna do a little review for them. That's a little thank you. So this is the Stemoscope. And if you don't know what Stemoscope is, it is basically a little stethoscope. It is a Bluetooth device that connects to your phone, you download the app and then you place it on your chest to listen to heartbeat sounds, lung sounds. You can try it on your pets as well apparently. And yeah, you can record it on your phone via the app. So we're gonna try that out today. I am in the middle of charging my phone. So once my phone is charged, I will come back and we'll get started. So this little thing is really, really lightweight, it's really small. It can fit anywhere in your pocket, in your bag, really easy to carry around. Also, you can use this up to two meters away from your mobile phone device app. So if you're with somebody, you can sort of have them stand at the other side of the room, I guess, if you wanted to use it. Also, once it's charged, so it's got a little USB bit here that you plug it in and charge it. And once it's charged it, you can use it for up to five hours, which is quite good, it's quite good going, I think. And this is compatible with iPhone and Android. It also comes in three colors. You have white, the blue that I've got and pink, which I've just got up on the website for you. Here you go, they are the three colors. And actually they're on offer at the minute. So they are almost half price. So I'll put the website below. If you are interested, you can buy it. I'm not getting any commission for this, so don't worry, you don't need to buy it. If you don't want to, you don't really need it. But I just wanted to show you just in case. Also, I just wanted to put a disclaimer out there. This is not like an NHS official approved device. This is just a little fun gadget that I'm testing out. But I love gadgets and all that jazz, so I'm really excited about this. So I am currently downloading the Stemoscope app, which looks like this. Oh, it looks like it's downloaded. There it is. I just need to open it now. Turn on Bluetooth, okay. Okay, right. I have now set it up. This is what the first page looks like. And you've got your little history, listen, miscellaneous, settings, help, order one. Right, whereas my Stemoscope. So now this little button here on the side will turn it on. Should be, there you go. A little light to say that it's on. And I'm going to, oh, here you go. So it's turned on. You have to scan the code at the back. So tap here to scan. Let's tap here, enter your email. There you go, register. So you have to register your device to the app, which is now loading. Okay, connected, there you go. So it's connected 100% battery life because I've charged it ready for this session. So let's have a listen. So this is your screen you'll get. It shows you where to place the Stemoscope. So let's have a go. Hopefully this will, let's turn the volume up. And just tapping it to make sure it's working. There you go. Right, now, now I need to place it. If I do excuse me, actually, let's go the other way. Do excuse me while I do this bit. See if we can hear anything. I'm struggling guys. Can be a while, but I finally heard something. So yeah, that was really difficult. I found that really difficult to sort of find where I could hear it on my chest and the end I found it sort of here was the best place for it. I couldn't hear anything up the top or further down. Maybe it's just my body, who knows. But I couldn't really hear anything. You can listen to lungs as well. So this is the lungs and you can place it here. Can't really, I don't know if I'll be able to do that. Let's have a look. Just, I just put it at the top there. Let's have a look what else. Oh, so in the miscellaneous folder, you've got install babies demo. So you can listen to your baby's heartbeat and listen for meditation. So you can listen to the sounds of the heartbeat for mindfulness and meditation. That's quite cool. So you can also do dogs. You've got left side and right side here. Pet left, pet right. So you can do your dogs. I'm assuming it can be cats as well. I haven't recorded anything yet. Should we try and record it and see what happens? Let's have a little record. So I find you discovered how to record. Let's have a play. So you have the option to save it. So then it should be saved in my little history. Let's have a look. Yes, it's saved in my history. And then it gives you the option as well to share it. So it looks like it's by email only. I'm not too sure how to share it on social media and stuff. I'm assuming you email it to yourself and then download it and then share it if you wanna share it. I don't know. So yeah, so that's been really interesting. I better shut this off, save my battery life. Quite a cool gadget. I think I need maybe to use it on somebody else rather than myself because I've got a feeling that maybe it's just me why I can't pick up my heartbeat in certain places. I don't know, maybe I'm gone wrong. So that is it. That is a little go of the stemoscope. All in all, I think it's a pretty cool gadget to have but I just struggled with I think getting the sound initially but once I got it, it was there and I was able to record it and you can share it and stuff like that. I think it's pretty cool. Is it gonna be good enough for the NHS? I don't know. As much as I love technology and digital stuff, I am a little bit old school as well. I love the manual stethoscope and I love doing manual blood pressures. I don't 100% trust technology in that sense but this is I think a really cool gadget to have. You can use it on your friends and your pets and stuff. It's really cool to do little recordings and like I said in the app, you can do it as meditation and stuff like that which is pretty cool but am I gonna use it on patients? I'm probably not gonna use it on patients, sorry guys but all in all, a really cool product and yeah. And also my next step for this product is my friend is a gamer and she loves to play horror games and scare herself to death. I don't know why. So I said I will send her this and she can monitor her heartbeat. So that's gonna be really, really interesting. I'm gonna put her channel below. I'm gonna send it to her and see if she has any more luck than me. But yeah, that's the stethoscope guys. That is it from me. I hope you've enjoyed this little review. I have some more reviews, some book reviews, nursing related, if you're interested in that coming up. So keep an eye out, watch this space and don't forget to subscribe if you haven't subscribed for those reviews and you'll get the notifications.