NCT03596541

Clinical Validation of Tele-stethoscope System Digital

Clinical Validation of Tele-stethoscope System Digital Bluetooth Ehas-fundatel

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: Sociedad Española de Neumología y Cirugía Torácica · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Acute respiratory infections and other respiratory and cardiology diseases like COPD or heart failure are important causes of morbidity and mortality around the world. Telemedicine is defined as the delivery of health care and the sharing of medical knoledge over distances using telecommunication systems. Inexpensive techologies offer the possibility of a direct, real-time connection between the patient or the other end. These technologies help to the physicians to manage different symptoms and cardio-respiratory diseases. A real-time wireless tele-stethoscopy system was designed to allow a physician to receive real-time cardio-respiratory sounds from a remote auscultation, as well as video images showing where the technician is placing the stethoscope on the patient´s body. Actually, the lack of physicians in rural areas of developing countries makes difficult their correct diagnosis and treatment. Furthermore, in the majority of health systems, the patients are shared between primary care and medical specialty in hospitals. The tele-stethoscopy system through telemedicine could help to the physicians or health-care technicians in the majority of health systems and especially in rural areas of developing countries without physicians to manage the patients. For this reason, the goal of this project is the clinical validation of an open real-time tele-stethoscope systme (EHAS-Fundatel digital stethoscope) previously designed, with different specialist (pneumologists, cardiologists and internists.)

Conditions

• Respiratory Disorder
• Heart Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Heart and Respiratory Auscultation of an open real-time tele-stethoscopy system (EHAS-Fundatel digital stethoscope)	We compare the respiratory and heart auscultation of clinicians using the EHAS-Fundatel digital stethoscope and a conventional stethoscope and we will observe; inter-observer and intra-observer differences by two auscultation methods.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-08-27
• Primary completion: 2018-11-27
• Completion: 2018-12-27
• First posted: 2018-07-24
• Last updated: 2022-11-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain