Doctors' orders, out with the old and in with the new.

Once upon a time in France, a physician invented a device that allowed him to hear the sounds produced within a patient's chest without cutting it open!


In 1816 Dr. René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec developed the stethoscope.  Since then, no major optimizations have been devised for it, only better materials but no addition to it's general function.


In 1902 the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company was founded.


You've probably heard of 3M, if you've spent much time in hospitals you've seen a lot of there stuff...then again if you've been to Staples or Office Depot you've seen a lot of there stuff as well.


That's because 3M simply makes shit...all kinds of it.  But the catch to their culture is innovation, quality rather than quantity.


Now, 193 years later, 3M has cast their benevolent wand of innovation over the device that doctor's use most to get close to your heart.

With aid from Zargis Medical Corp., 3M Littmann has developed the Electronic Stethoscope Model 3200.


This marvelous device not only digitally amplifies the sounds in your chest, it also sends the beat count to Cardioscan software developed by Zargis (via Bluetooth).


This eliminates the fine science MDs have been trained for, in order to properly identify murmurs or any other abnormalities giving doctors hard data to consult right on their computer.


This digital format allows doctors to analyze the sounds of your heart the way a sound engineer produces records.  Start/Stop Forward/Rewind Change of tempo.  All useful manipulations doctors can test to best diagnose the sounds being produced by their patients.