Digital stethoscopes compared to standard auscultation for detecting abnormal paediatric breath sounds
| Autor: | Anaath Kalirajah, Robert Roseby, Ajay Kevat |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Sound Spectrography Stethoscope Adolescent Concordance Audiology Sensitivity and Specificity law.invention 03 medical and health sciences Electronic stethoscope 0302 clinical medicine law Wheeze medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Respiratory sounds Expiration Child Respiratory Sounds Observer Variation medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Stethoscopes Auscultation 030228 respiratory system Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Crackles Female medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | European journal of pediatrics. 176(7) |
| ISSN: | 1432-1076 |
| Popis: | Our study aimed to objectively describe the audiological characteristics of wheeze and crackles in children by using digital stethoscope (DS) auscultation, as well as assess concordance between standard auscultation and two different DS devices in their ability to detect pathological breath sounds. Twenty children were auscultated by a paediatric consultant doctor and digitally recorded using the Littman™ 3200 Digital Electronic Stethoscope and a Clinicloud™ DS with smart device. Using spectrographic analysis, we found those with clinically described wheeze had prominent periodic waveform segments spanning expiration for a period of 0.03-1.2 s at frequencies of 100-1050 Hz, and occasionally spanning shorter inspiratory segments; paediatric crackles were brief discontinuous sounds with a distinguishing waveform. There was moderate concordance with respect to wheeze detection between digital and standard binaural stethoscopes, and 100% concordance for crackle detection. Importantly, DS devices were more sensitive than clinician auscultation in detecting wheeze in our study.Objective definition of audio characteristics of abnormal paediatric breath sounds was achieved using DS technology. We demonstrated superiority of our DS method compared to traditional auscultation for detection of wheeze. What is Known: • The audiological characteristics of abnormal breath sounds have been well-described in adult populations but not in children. • Inter-observer agreement for detection of pathological breath sounds using standard auscultation has been shown to be poor, but the clinical value of now easily available digital stethoscopes has not been sufficiently examined. What is New: • Digital stethoscopes can objectively define the nature of pathological breath sounds such as wheeze and crackles in children. • Paediatric wheeze was better detected by digital stethoscopes than by standard auscultation performed by an expert paediatric clinician. |
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