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A Wearable Stethoscope for Long-Term Ambulatory Respiratory Health Monitoring
Lung sounds acquired by stethoscopes are extensively used in diagnosing and differentiating respiratory diseases. Although an extensive know-how has been built to interpret these sounds and identify diseases associated with certain patterns, its effective use is limited to individual experience of p...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7571051/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32911861 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20185124 |
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author | Yilmaz, Gürkan Rapin, Michaël Pessoa, Diogo Rocha, Bruno M. de Sousa, Antonio Moreira Rusconi, Roberto Carvalho, Paulo Wacker, Josias Paiva, Rui Pedro Chételat, Olivier |
author_facet | Yilmaz, Gürkan Rapin, Michaël Pessoa, Diogo Rocha, Bruno M. de Sousa, Antonio Moreira Rusconi, Roberto Carvalho, Paulo Wacker, Josias Paiva, Rui Pedro Chételat, Olivier |
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description | Lung sounds acquired by stethoscopes are extensively used in diagnosing and differentiating respiratory diseases. Although an extensive know-how has been built to interpret these sounds and identify diseases associated with certain patterns, its effective use is limited to individual experience of practitioners. This user-dependency manifests itself as a factor impeding the digital transformation of this valuable diagnostic tool, which can improve patient outcomes by continuous long-term respiratory monitoring under real-life conditions. Particularly patients suffering from respiratory diseases with progressive nature, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, are expected to benefit from long-term monitoring. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has also shown the lack of respiratory monitoring systems which are ready to deploy in operational conditions while requiring minimal patient education. To address particularly the latter subject, in this article, we present a sound acquisition module which can be integrated into a dedicated garment; thus, minimizing the role of the patient for positioning the stethoscope and applying the appropriate pressure. We have implemented a diaphragm-less acousto-electric transducer by stacking a silicone rubber and a piezoelectric film to capture thoracic sounds with minimum attenuation. Furthermore, we benchmarked our device with an electronic stethoscope widely used in clinical practice to quantify its performance. |
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spelling | pubmed-75710512020-10-28 A Wearable Stethoscope for Long-Term Ambulatory Respiratory Health Monitoring Yilmaz, Gürkan Rapin, Michaël Pessoa, Diogo Rocha, Bruno M. de Sousa, Antonio Moreira Rusconi, Roberto Carvalho, Paulo Wacker, Josias Paiva, Rui Pedro Chételat, Olivier Sensors (Basel) Article Lung sounds acquired by stethoscopes are extensively used in diagnosing and differentiating respiratory diseases. Although an extensive know-how has been built to interpret these sounds and identify diseases associated with certain patterns, its effective use is limited to individual experience of practitioners. This user-dependency manifests itself as a factor impeding the digital transformation of this valuable diagnostic tool, which can improve patient outcomes by continuous long-term respiratory monitoring under real-life conditions. Particularly patients suffering from respiratory diseases with progressive nature, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, are expected to benefit from long-term monitoring. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has also shown the lack of respiratory monitoring systems which are ready to deploy in operational conditions while requiring minimal patient education. To address particularly the latter subject, in this article, we present a sound acquisition module which can be integrated into a dedicated garment; thus, minimizing the role of the patient for positioning the stethoscope and applying the appropriate pressure. We have implemented a diaphragm-less acousto-electric transducer by stacking a silicone rubber and a piezoelectric film to capture thoracic sounds with minimum attenuation. Furthermore, we benchmarked our device with an electronic stethoscope widely used in clinical practice to quantify its performance. MDPI 2020-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7571051/ /pubmed/32911861 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20185124 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Yilmaz, Gürkan Rapin, Michaël Pessoa, Diogo Rocha, Bruno M. de Sousa, Antonio Moreira Rusconi, Roberto Carvalho, Paulo Wacker, Josias Paiva, Rui Pedro Chételat, Olivier A Wearable Stethoscope for Long-Term Ambulatory Respiratory Health Monitoring |
title | A Wearable Stethoscope for Long-Term Ambulatory Respiratory Health Monitoring |
title_full | A Wearable Stethoscope for Long-Term Ambulatory Respiratory Health Monitoring |
title_fullStr | A Wearable Stethoscope for Long-Term Ambulatory Respiratory Health Monitoring |
title_full_unstemmed | A Wearable Stethoscope for Long-Term Ambulatory Respiratory Health Monitoring |
title_short | A Wearable Stethoscope for Long-Term Ambulatory Respiratory Health Monitoring |
title_sort | wearable stethoscope for long-term ambulatory respiratory health monitoring |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7571051/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32911861 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20185124 |
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