Remote stethoscope
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wrote on 30 Aug 2020, 05:27 last edited by
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/bluetooh-stethoscope-stethome
Recording sound from a stethoscope and transmit it over to a doctor to get a diagnosis, thus saving a doctor!s visit. While you have the recording, might as well run it through AI to also get a diagnosis. The idea seems simple enough. What I don’t get is: how do you educate the patients (of the patients’ parents/legal guardians) to place the stethoscope correctly in the first place? How sensitive is stethoscope placement for this application? What’s the consequence if the stethoscope was not placed correctly?
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wrote on 30 Aug 2020, 11:00 last edited by
Plus who uses a stethoscope anymore?
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wrote on 30 Aug 2020, 11:04 last edited by
So all this thing does is to sometimes tell me to see a doctor? Thanks but no thanks. I’m good.
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wrote on 30 Aug 2020, 11:50 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in Remote stethoscope:
Plus who uses a stethoscope anymore?
That was, my first thought as well. Most cardiologists just get an echocardiogram if they suspect something serious (which a stethoscope may clue them in on), and actually LOOK at the heart rather than try to figure out the pathology from sounds.
As an aside, for years, I used an esophageal stethoscope in many cases. I had a custom-made earpiece so I could listen with one ear while still hearing ambient sounds with the other. It was amazing what you could hear and how well with a stethoscope right up against the heart. Pediatric cases ALWAYS had a stethoscope taped to the chest.
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wrote on 30 Aug 2020, 11:56 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in Remote stethoscope:
Plus who uses a stethoscope anymore?
It is conceivable that a machine learning algorithm can deduce more from it than a human doctor.
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@jon-nyc said in Remote stethoscope:
Plus who uses a stethoscope anymore?
It is conceivable that a machine learning algorithm can deduce more from it than a human doctor.
wrote on 30 Aug 2020, 12:01 last edited by@Klaus said in Remote stethoscope:
@jon-nyc said in Remote stethoscope:
Plus who uses a stethoscope anymore?
It is conceivable that a machine learning algorithm can deduce more from it than a human doctor.
Really wouldn't be that hard, would it?
Specific sounds are associated with specific health issues, particularly listening to lungs, Rales, rhonchi, wheezes all sound different and point you down one path of thinking.
Listening to heart murmurs is the same - the onset of the murmur during the cardiac cycle, whether it gets louder, etc all are different. The murmurs of mitral insufficiency and aortic stenosis are both systolic murmurs but sound very different.
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@jon-nyc said in Remote stethoscope:
Plus who uses a stethoscope anymore?
That was, my first thought as well. Most cardiologists just get an echocardiogram if they suspect something serious (which a stethoscope may clue them in on), and actually LOOK at the heart rather than try to figure out the pathology from sounds.
As an aside, for years, I used an esophageal stethoscope in many cases. I had a custom-made earpiece so I could listen with one ear while still hearing ambient sounds with the other. It was amazing what you could hear and how well with a stethoscope right up against the heart. Pediatric cases ALWAYS had a stethoscope taped to the chest.
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@jon-nyc said in Remote stethoscope:
Plus who uses a stethoscope anymore?
It is conceivable that a machine learning algorithm can deduce more from it than a human doctor.
wrote on 30 Aug 2020, 12:07 last edited by@Klaus said in Remote stethoscope:
@jon-nyc said in Remote stethoscope:
Plus who uses a stethoscope anymore?
It is conceivable that a machine learning algorithm can deduce more from it than a human doctor.
Good point. I’d imagine a lot of this will be at-home consumer devices too, in the future.
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wrote on 30 Aug 2020, 13:21 last edited by Copper
No competent TV doctor would work without one.
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So all this thing does is to sometimes tell me to see a doctor? Thanks but no thanks. I’m good.
wrote on 30 Aug 2020, 14:58 last edited by@Klaus said in Remote stethoscope:
So all this thing does is to sometimes tell me to see a doctor? Thanks but no thanks. I’m good.
Yeah you live with one. What about the rest of us?
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wrote on 31 Aug 2020, 00:12 last edited by
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wrote on 31 Aug 2020, 00:41 last edited by
Trivia....Who wrote many of the Dr. Kikdare novels, but was not really known for that genre of books.?
