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So even if you aren't in PA school or going to PA school yet this video is very beneficial for you because then you'll just get some type of idea of the actual equipment that you'll be using once you get into PA school. So with my school they I think most schools actually do this but with my school they already like had an affiliation with a particular company. The company was Welch Allen. Welch Allen right there. Welch Allen for you guys. So it's Welch Allen and they just produce or they give you access to a lot of different medical equipment. So we had to get our package from Welch Allen. Sorry it's like a tongue twister you guys. I'm so sorry about that. But we had to get our packages from Welch Allen and we also had a representative from Litman because everybody has to get lit. Just a little medical humor for you. But we got our stuff from Litman. We had a representative from Litman actually come and talk to us about our stethoscope and so we did all of this during orientation. So by the time I think maybe we got it within a week we got all of our stuff. We got our scrubs because we have scrubs that we have to wear for anatomy lab and for different like PD lab stuff. So we got our scrubs from there. We got all of our equipment. The Litman guy came through with them and we had everything in about a week. We also got our white coats from them as well. So that was all done in that first three or so days of orientation when we were just going through like figuring out what was going to be happening in PA school and what equipment we needed. I already spoke about it. This is my Litman 3M stethoscope. I kind of I did an upgrade. So I went with like the charcoal look because you can it usually comes in like a silver. So but I went with the charcoal look because I wanted a little bit more stealth and I think actually want another stethoscope because there's this one Litman stethoscope that's so nice you guys. It has like this actual like I don't know rainbowy colored actual bell and diaphragm that I really want to get. So maybe I'll get that like for graduation or something because it looks so sick. But I went with the plum color. There were other colors. There's like Caribbean blue and all of these other different colors. There's like pink. So you're like the sky's the limit when you're getting it but we our program said they wanted 3M. There are different lengths and different types but we got the 3M Litman stethoscope. The first thing they do is teach you how to put it on. So I don't know if you can see from the side. It shows you that it's kind of like bell shaped in. So that means like going towards the nose. That's how you put your stethoscopes in. There you go. It's on. And then with us we the bell and the diaphragm they you know pretty much use them for different things like low sounds or high sounds but you can easily switch it. I can turn my stethoscope and that changes. So right now I can hear it here on the diaphragm and then turn it. I can hear it on the bell. So there are different options for that but they have a nice cool little thing which actually shows you there's like a little dot which shows you which one is on. So always be sure to do that. Love my stethoscope. Love it. Love it. Love Litman. So great stethoscope to get. Great company to get it with. So with Welsh Allen they pretty much brought our whole like everything in the package. So we had to get of course like your tuning forks and stuff. So for like your Wren and Weber tests like this one is like vibrating. I can hear it. We do like the Wren and the Weber. You know you'll learn that when you're doing your HENT module but it's a little gentle hit. I don't know if you can see it vibrating but it's vibrating right now and then I stop it with my hand. So these are like my tuning forks that I've been using in my PD class and then I have not used it at all. I tried it on my daughter. It was like an epic fail. You know this is my percussion hammer so that I can test like the different deep tenon reflexes did not work. I don't know maybe I wasn't tapping hard enough or I wasn't really tapping on her patella tendon or what but it didn't work. So when you're dealing with kids you have to distract them right. So I'm giving her my tape measure flexes. You hit it right on the patella tendon. Was that a reflex? I have to know not that this this. So I guess I need a little bit more practice with that one. So usually I'm used to like you know just the little like wind up blood pressure cuff but they gave us these like these blood pressure cuffs. So it like here's the wind thing here you guys but like I just felt like this was so huge but it's like actually it's like pretty comfortable and it's great and they came with we have the adult size cuff that came in a nice little handy the package that I showed you. A nice little handy package comes with your blood pressure cuff for the adults and then look at this. Look at how cute and small this is you guys. This is the kids blood pressure cuff. This is so cute. This is too cute so like this is gonna come in handy when I am doing my pediatric rotation. So that's really cool but nice little cute blood pressure cuff for the kids. I don't know like little things are just always so much cuter right. But it fits in here goes back in there. Nice little pressure gauge at the zero mark so that's always test that because there are times when it's not necessarily at the zero mark and that means that it needs to be recalibrated or it's broken so you can always send it back and things of that nature. And I know that with um let me just go back to that because with my Litman stethoscope it is like a you have like a I don't know is it a 10 year warranty. I'm not really sure how long the warranty is but I have a warranty on this where if any part like chips or breaks or something like that I can send it back to them if the tubing gets messed up somehow. If it gets ran over by a car five times as long as I have the pieces I can send it back and they will replace it for me. Now you can't like lose it and try to get it replaced like you'll have to pay for a new one but if you still have the pieces there is a warranty on that so that is really cool to know okay. I also got the ophthalmoscope so this is my ophthalmoscope you guys may have seen it um you see my light there shining on my hand I can dim it um I can like dim the light turn it off turn it on I don't know if you can see it but there it is um I shunt shined it there in the camera for you guys so that is my ophthalmoscope um some people opted for the panoramic one which gives you like the full view of the back of the eye like it's huge it's like has like this it almost looks like a little gun like it has this tubing that goes around like across it and then you like take it and you put it on the person's like whole entire eye and you just look in so you don't have to like find the you know the cup and the fovea and all that stuff just like by going in and doing all of the methods that they usually teach you on how to use your ophthalmoscope you just kind of put it on and then you look in and it's there so some people opted for that and they're like a couple people but it was really to me I just felt like I needed the basics like I didn't need um to spend extra money to get the panoramic one maybe after I become a PA I will realize like okay I think that might be something that I want to do or if I go into ophthalmology that might be something that I want to do but for now I think that just your regular olabasic ophthalmoscope will do this switches it comes off right so it comes off and then I can put on my otoscope so it just kind of slips in otoscope is on and same thing like same thing light light light where is the light light right you see the light and then so you can go in you look in the air um it comes with disposable and reusable pieces so you have large ones and small ones for different air types and for the nose and all of that stuff so this is handy this is my thing I love this thing I use this quite often um so really liked it and again takes it right on off so now like for this you have to charge it so it just kind of it's really really neat like look at this boom right there so you just plug it into the wall you charge it and it's cool like it's done that's it you charge it up um there was another one like more lightweight like I don't know this one doesn't really feel heavy in the hand but apparently when you feel the lightweight one that actually it's like a black grip it's you can tell the difference but it's more lightweight and then I believe it tells you when it's fully charged this one doesn't tell you when it's fully charged so they just tell you to kind of like charge it up overnight if you see your light is um dimming charge it up overnight um and make sure that you kind of get it as charged to full capacity as you can because kind of like a cell phone you know like if you don't let the cell phone charge up fully when you first get it before using it like the battery capacity is like severely diminished so same thing with this but that is um that's my package for that um it comes in this nice little case like here you go nice little case right nice little case there and we can open it up and you see all of my equipment just sitting right in there oh something went overboard I'll get that later I think it was like my spectrums and that's pretty much it I have this pen light this actually comes with it as well so um I don't know if some of you who've seen your physicians or PAs use this um in your ophthalmology clinics that you may go to but this is like the old school way of doing um your actual like panoramic type view so you can use this or panoptic ophthalmoscope to actually look in and see with your ophthalmoscope like the whole eye and it this is very helpful so it comes with this as well so even if you didn't get the panoramic ophthalmoscope you can use this panoptic cube to see in the eye then your handy little dandy pen light so it comes with a little sleeve because you have to slide it off so that you can push on this so that the light works and you can slide it back and I'm pushing no light right but you use this you know to do your direct and consensual light and um you know if you want to see something I don't know if you want to look under a bed or something I I don't know like you're in a room you're with some peas you're they're scared of the dark I don't know there's monsters under the bed go ahead and use your little pen light to look and see but that's what we pretty much use it for for the direct and consensual light and that is it those were all of my equipment that's all that I received for PA school that's all that we were required to get um some people got like a little carrying cases and like um I don't need that I'll put it in my bag like I'm fine with that but I mean it would be cool to have like a nice cool bag that you can carry all your equipment in um but I opted not to do that but if you want to they have that as well like they have like the old school like you know back in the 1970s doctor carrying bag and then they have like some better like a little bit more fashion forward bags so very very good option for you I suggest you go check them out Welsh Allen there are some other companies obviously that do medical equipment as well um and but definitely I like my products that I got from there and go get a litmus stethoscope you might want to check on your schools because some schools um like my school if you already had like a 3m or one that was comparable made by Litman you were fine you did not you weren't required to get another stethoscope because they're expensive you know like that's it's like a hundred plus dollar investment depending on the upgrades that you get so just some things to think about um hope this helps I hope you guys are preparing for PA school you're getting your stuff together and I hope this makes it a little bit easier to choose the right equipment that you may need for your PA school journey all right thank you guys so much for requesting this um I really love doing it I like my stethoscope let me put my stethoscope on so I look a little bit more official right um but thank you guys so much for requesting it if you have any other requests go ahead and leave that in the comment section below um so that I can get some of your ideas and see what we can do with respect to making that video for you and if you haven't already done so go ahead and follow me on Instagram and subscribe to my channel right now like right now go hit that subscribe button right now and um I will see you guys next week all right talk to you later bye