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Will the stethoscope be replaced by smartphones?

Will the stethoscope be replaced by smartphones?
Matt Davis
November 11, 2015

Ever since its invention in 1816, the stethoscope was crucial to medical examination. As simple and unchanged as it is, the stethoscope has helped doctors diagnose cardiovascular and respiratory diseases easily or lead them toward presumptive diagnoses that lead to a more focused set of clinical examinations. It is hard to imagine doctors without their symbolic stethoscope around their necks, but it might become a reality soon.

David Bello, the chief of the cardiology department at Orlando Health, has developed a new innovative way of performing auscultation. Because what doctors hear through a stethoscope is purely subjective, but more importantly, by not using disposable stethoscopes bacteria is being transmitted from a patient onto another more easily, not through the head of the stethoscope because doctors are trained to decontaminate it between examinations, but through the earpieces, a more effective way had to be developed.

HeartBuds is composed by a small plastic listening device that connects to a smartphone. An app was developed to record the sounds, that can easily be saved and replayed and it also records rhythmic blips corresponding to each sound. HeartBuds was tested and results showed that it recorded sounds as well as doctors can hear them with high standard stethoscopes.

Being able to record these sounds, doesn’t only make it easier to identify murmurs or bruits, it also has didactic purposes, as students can now be better trained on listening to them, ruling out some subjective aspects of the old fashioned stethoscope. Even patients have the ability of acquiring HeartBuds so they can record sounds at home.

“They can take a recording of their heart and lungs at home, upload them and send them to their doctor, who can evaluate them without the patient ever leaving home if it’s not necessary,” said David Bello.

Although, interpreting should still be made by trained health care providers, this new device and app can revolutionize the way doctors examine their patients.

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Medicine and Health
November 11, 2015
Matt Davis

Who doesn’t enjoy listening to a good story. Personally I love reading about the people who inspire me and what it took for them to achieve their success. As I am a bit of a self confessed tech geek I think there is no better way to discover these stories than by reading every day some articles or the newspaper . My bookcases are filled with good tech biographies, they remind me that anyone can be a success. So even if you come from an underprivileged part of society or you aren’t the smartest person in the room we all have a chance to reach the top. The same message shines in my beliefs. All it takes to succeed is a good idea, a little risk and a lot of hard work and any geek can become a success. VENI VIDI VICI .

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