Lung sounds indicate the lung's capacity to hold and breathe oxygen, which assists in evaluating its qualitative health. While clinical lung data like cough conditions, mucus levels, shortness of breath, wheezing, fatigue, age, Tiffeneau-Pinelli index, smoking conditions, etc., assist in ...
Therefore, it is urgent to develop a non-invasive and rapid COPD severity diagnosis technique suitable for daily screening in clinical practice. Results This study established an effective model for the preliminary diagnosis of COPD severity using lung sounds with few channels. Firstly, the time-...
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To this end, the digital stethoscope has been developed to record lung sounds by digitizing acoustic signals [13]. It enables the visualization and retrospective analysis of lung sounds. In addition, wireless transmission (e.g., Bluetooth or WiFi) allows it to be used for remote diagnosis, fur...
(Figure 9-1) Retrospective review of radiographs in animals with PTE may allow the detection of regional oligemia, lack of normal vascular tapering, or enlarged central pulmonary arteries; however, in the clinical setting, radiographic changes appear less obvious, because PTE is often not suspected...
DR GUBENS: He had just a touch of emphysema, didn’t have clinical COPD but had radiographic evidence of emphysema but really an excellent 02 status and actually a good performance status, dancing and singing when I first met him. DR LOVE: Wow! Interesting. So it sounds like in this cas...
attention from their relatives, which leads to the patients being very prone to adverse emotions such as nervousness, anxiety, and even depression, which affects the clinical efficacy and prognosis of the patients. In addition, the sound of various instruments, alarms, and rescue sounds in the IC...
I was acutely aware that with this many voices, cacophony (unpleasant mixture of loud sounds) In medicine, this is known as the WICOS problem: Who Is the Captain Of the Ship? The nephrologists disagreed with the ICU doctors, who disagreed with the endocrinologists, who disagreed with the onc...
(meaning the tumour was still in her colon). Her mother took herbs for just a month. Her CEA decreased from 19.9 to 17.3, CA 125 decreased from 37.4 to 20.9 but her CA 19.9 increased from 51.6 to 313.5. The daughter, (a bank manager) wrote:I just trusted the wrong DR quack. ...
A few existing smartphone apps claim to measure lung function, but they are poor mimics of an office test. For example, one app measures how loud the exhaled breath sounds, which strongly depends on how close to the mouth a person holds the phone. None of them is recommended for medical ...