T he stethoscope has been so widely used by clinicians in the diagnosis and management of patients' illnesses that it has virtually become a symbol of the medical profession. Indeed, as pointed out by Reiser in Scientific American, the invention of the stethoscope by Laënnec revolutionized medicine, changing it from an art to a science [1]. Another revolution is now going on. Auscultation of th...

Heart diseases are among the most important causes of mortality in the world, especially in industrial countries. Using heart sounds and the features extracted from them are among the non-aggressive diagnosis and prognosis methods for heart diseases. In this study, the time-scale, Cepstral, frequency, temporal and turbulence features are saved and extracted from the heart sounds, and then they ...

Objective: To compare the efficacy of “Just seal” method endotracheal tube cuff inflation versus “stethoscope guided”method for reduction frequency post operative sore throat.
 Study Design: Prospective observation study.
 Place and Duration study: This study was conducted in Main operation theatre, CMH Kohat from 1st September 2018 to 30th November 2018.
 Patients methods: 44 pa...

Presented is the project called MAMICare, which is motivated by the alarming number of maternity and infant deaths in rural areas due mainly to a poor monitoring of pregnancy progress and lack of appropriate alerting mechanism in case of abnormal gestation evolution. This work proposes an information technology solution based on mobile devices, and health sensors such as ECG (electrocardiogram)...

For many years intermittent recording of the foetal heart rate with a stethoscope and the detection of meconium in the liquor have been the only signs used for diagnosing intrapartum foetal asphyxia. Although the system has the virtue of simplicity, the unexpected disappearance of foetal heart sound when the foetal heart rate was being recorded as normal, or the frequent delivery of a vigorous ...