Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/C0pP7IOLGv5/ The stethoscopes that doctors wear around their necks or tuck into their lab coats allow monitoring or lung and gastrointestinal functions.  Problem is: your medical team members can’t listen all day long and ambient hospital and medical office  noise often washes out valuable diagnostic sounds.   To solve these problems, Northwestern bioengineers have developed tiny, battery-powered microphone wearables that can be attached to a baby’s or an adult’s skin and record or relay via bluetooth body sounds continuously.  The units have two microphones: one records body sounds; and the other records ambient noise and permits noise cancellation.   The device can monitor breathing rhythms, depth of breathing, heart sounds including murmurs and valvular sounds, and the sounds emitted by the stomach and bowels as they function through the day and night.  Using AI analysis, clinicians will be able to diagnose some diseases non-invasively by recognizing characteristic