SmartPhone Apps for Body Sounds

For those of you who have an iPhone there are some interesting Apps in the App Store under the Catagory MEDICAL. There are Apps for recording patients heart rate and blood pressure,eye sight, internat body sounds, hearing frequency range and many more.

[color=#0000ff][b]HEART WISE Blood Pressure Tracker[/b][/color], which gives you good graphical images,

[color=#0000ff]iSTETHOSCOPE PRO, [/color][color=#0000ff]which turns your phone into a stethoscope and again gives you graphical images of the heart rate.[/color]

[color=#0000ff]EYE TEST [/color][color=#0000ff]a portable testing tool for near visual acuity, colour test and visual illusion.[/color]

[color=#0000ff]AUSCULATION [/color][color=#0000ff]This is a computer program that promarily plays different sounds of the human heart beat murmurs or lung wheezes and also abdominal bowel sounds.[/color]

[color=#0000ff]PHYSICAL EXAM ESSENTIALS [/color][color=#0000ff]is source for quick overview of the physical examination, never forget an important exam technique again.[/color]

[color=#0000ff]HEARING TEST [/color][color=#0000ff]with the aid of earphone you can check a person hearing frequency range.[/color]

[color=#0000ff]The list goes on, i thought thes would be useful for anyone wishing to add another test, exam technique, graphical printout to you standard medical examination, makeing it even more authentic.[/color]

Goshdarnit! What will those techies think of next? Fantabulous ideas, I'm going to see how many of those are available for the iPad.

Well it seems to be a kind of democratization of the thinklabs and other electronic stethoscopes and will surely be important for online play!

I downloaded the stethoscope app and it's awesome. I still prefer my old fashioned one but this provided a lot of entertainment for me and my playdoc.

Has anyone any experience with the phone app iStethoscope. I think its unique to iPhone however I read in one of the engineering journals that a generic model effective with all cell phones is to be marketed. There is another team developing a stethoscope that actually analyzes the sounds and spits out a diagnosis. Aimed at third world - the writer indicated that 250-300 people could be screened in a single afternoon. I wrote to the gent and he wanted me as a field tester - sadly I don't see that much clinical material. Any feed back would be appreciated. I wanted to buy one of his gismos but not yet on the US market (FDA clearance I assume) DrLaennec

Hi Dr. Leannec, I read in a Specialized Magazine the develope of the software is on basis of 3M Littmann Electronic Stethoscope, i dont know how iPhone do the exam but i think i will see a model in Düsseldorf at Medica 2011 exhibition at the end of current month.

If I have other news i tell you.

Bye Dr. Stef.

Dr Stef et. al. I have the Littmann 4100 with software. I'll look for it and send it to whomever wants to play with this. Dr Stef give us details details details on this upcoming meeting - I love the free stuff from the commerical vendors. This by the way is drying up in the US

This is the official website of Medica 2011 exhibition.

http://www.medica-tradefair.com/

Bye.

Dr. Stef.

Ive got this app. the asthma council of SA actually wrote about it in their newsletter, saying its a great app for asthma sufferers to listen to their wheeze (different types f wheeze means different things) stupid me, i tried it out, withouth reading u need to wear earphones..i couldnt hear a thing. DUH! actually pretty clear considering its a phone. but. im not a doc. i didnt hear anything other than my heart and my wheeze. doesnt really help me, but cool to explore!

Oh wow! The physical exam essentials is just what I need! And luckily my "patient" has an ipad 😃

Isteth is cool if you amplify it through the stereo

Thanks just got new iphone thanks for info

Is the iphone the only one out there that has these kinds of apps? or are there others out there?

Greetings Stethophiles - I've come upon an interesting method of transmitted high quality heart sounds by way of cell phone (smart phone) so if you have a decent cell or contemplating one this is for you. First a bit of history - I take no credit for this rather my good friend Maribeth (of this group) brought my attention to it when she recorded excellent heart sounds. I was able to clearly determine rate and rhythm accurately and likewise splitting of S2, respiratory sounds were loud and clear as were those of the abdomen. She has no murmur so I cannot say with certainty whether they transmit (possibly not because of their high and low frequencies (perhaps someone can experiment along these lines.

So the setup is roughly this HTC Cell Phone With Build In Voice Recorder (for making personal notes?) > Generic Voice Microphone ($10 Radio Shack Electret) > Diaphragm Removed From Stethoscope and Placed On Chest > Bare Chest.

To record one must download the appropriate App. Do this from Appworld.com using search terms like Voice Recording or Virtual Recorder. Perhaps the search term heart sounds or stethoscope would yield results. Maribeth informs me that one has numerous aps (perhaps someone with an interest could evaluate these). I have spoken to others who indicate istethoscope simply does not work! So much for Apple!

Now if you would like to hear examples produced by her "approach" free to contact her via e-mail.

Marbedoll (Yahoo Messenger) or Marbedoll@gmail.com

DrLaennec ClinicalUSMLE@yahoo.com and Messenger

Ps Creepers will be ignored

Thanks for those, I'm going to try them out.

I've also got the steth app and it's ok but doesn't always pick up the sound too well

Thanks for the info, i am going to try some recording now

Thanks, I've got the Isteth pro app and it works ok at times. Gonna try some though

I find that the sounds are too faint and these ads don't work too well.

I have downloaded 2 apps from my app store for monitoring:

Heartbeat-an app that allows to measure own heart rate and gives advice according to the result.

Heartbeatlistener-allows recording the heart using earphones. I am testing this one.

There are also these fitness apps that measure heartrate,blood pressure,saturation,number of steps per day etc.

This would be another fun thing to play with for us cardiophile techies.

https://stethio.com/stethoscope_features/

I use an app And heart monitor that charts heart rate - non acoustic. I use it for aerobic exercise. Gives a graph of what your heart was during various zones of your workout: warm up, fat burning, aerobic, anaerobic. You set the stages with recommendations based on age. In the fat burning zone you are burning the highest percentage of fat calories. In the aerobic and anaerobic the percentage goes down, but you are burning a lot more calories so total calorie burn is higher. The app also shows total calories burned. Higher the heart rate equals more calories burned. Depends on your physical condition what your max heart really should be. I do intervals.