A digital stethoscope was developed to facilitate computer-assisted auscultation, capturing heart sounds from the skin’s surface. These sounds are filtered, amplified, and transmitted to healthcare ...

New multi-sensor stethoscope improves heart valve disease detection, offering an affordable and scalable screening tool for early diagnosis.

The stethoscope, known as a clinician's 'third hand,' is a passive and unexamined vector of these infections, acting as the vector for deadly diseases like central line-associated bloodstream ...

The consumerization of medtech marches on: Amsterdam-based startup Lapsi Health has just clinched FDA approval for its first clinical support tool, a ...

When it comes to this essential healthcare tool, there's no room for mediocre. Here are the stethoscopes that doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals rely on.

In this paper, we propose a novel Spectrogram Secure Domain Adaptation via Encrypted Vector Transfer (SeDA-EVT) pipeline for medical auscultation data, which is achieved by sequentially merging two ...

Pregnancy-related heart failure is under-detected; AI-enabled stethoscope helped doctors diagnose twice as many cases Date: September 3, 2024 Source: Mayo Clinic Summary: Heart failure during ...

If you keep your stethoscope in your pants pocket, make sure that lint and dirt hasn’t clogged the earpieces. Also bear in mind that stethoscopes are a potential vector disease transmission ...

The new guideline categorizes the stethoscope as a vector that transmits by touch and states the need for hygiene before all patient exams.

Eko Health's artificial intelligence (AI) tool can detect low ejection fraction in seconds via an Eko stethoscope, bringing earlier heart failure detection to routine checkups.