ReviewJournal of multidisciplinary healthcare2019
The first 200 years of cardiac auscultation and future perspectives.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 77 citations in OpenAlex.
- Diagnostic Accuracy of AI Algorithms in Aortic Stenosis Screening: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical medicine & research · 2024Pooled it
- Advancing Point-of-Care Still's Murmur Identification: Evaluating the Efficacy of ConvNets and Transformers Using the StethAid Multicenter Heart Sound Database.IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering · 2026Article
- Prior-aligned frequency-domain explanations for heart sound classification: a scale-consistent attribution approach.Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2026Article
- Automatic Diagnosis of Left Valvular Heart Disease Based on Artificial Intelligence Stethoscope.JACC. Advances · 2025Article
- Phonocardiopulmography: the future of perioperative auscultation.Anesthesia and pain medicine · 2025Review
- Deep learning-based evaluation of the severity of mitral regurgitation in canine myxomatous mitral valve disease patients using digital stethoscope recordings.BMC veterinary research · 2025Article
- A novel wearable device integrating ECG and PCG for cardiac health monitoring.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2025Article
- Diagnostic Value of Synchronous Heart Sound Electrocardiogram in Children with Postural Tachycardia Syndrome.Pediatric health, medicine and therapeutics · 2025Article
- Rapid detection and interpretation of heart murmurs using phonocardiograms, transfer learning and explainable artificial intelligence.Health information science and systems · 2024Article
- Evaluation of a digitally enhanced cardiac auscultation learning method in Cameroon: results of a controlled study.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Evaluation of arteriovenous fistula for hemodialysis with a new generation digital stethoscope: a pilot study.International urology and nephrology · 2024Article
- Implementation of stethoscope disinfection: an observational study on nursing staff practice and knowledge.GMS hygiene and infection control · 2024Article
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- StethAid: A Digital Auscultation Platform for Pediatrics.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Technical characterisation of digital stethoscopes: towards scalable artificial intelligence-based auscultation.Journal of medical engineering & technology · 2023Article
- A randomized, controlled trial of an innovative, multimedia instructional program for acquiring auditory skill in identifying pediatric heart murmurs.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- The Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) by the Handheld Ultrasound Devices (HUDs) in the COVID-19 Scenario: a Review of the Literature.SN comprehensive clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Design and Fabrication of an Integrated Hollow Concave Cilium MEMS Cardiac Sound Sensor.Micromachines · 2022Article
- Design and Realization of MEMS Heart Sound Sensor with Concave, Racket-Shaped Cilium.Biosensors · 2022Article
- New Methods for the Acoustic-Signal Segmentation of the Temporomandibular Joint.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
Cardiac auscultation - even with its limitations - is still a valid and economical technique for the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases, and despite the growing demand for sophisticated imaging techniques, clinical use of the stethoscope in medical practice has not yet been abandoned. In 1816, René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec invented the stethoscope, while examining a young woman with suspected heart disease, giving rise to mediated auscultation. He described in detail several heart and lung sounds, correlating them with postmortem pathology. Even today, a correct interpretation of heart sounds, integrated with the clinical history and physical examination, allows to detect properly most of the structural heart abnormalities or to evaluate them in a differential diagnosis. However, the lack of organic teaching of auscultation and its inadequate practice have a negative impact on the clinical competence of physicians in training, also reflecting a diminished academic interest in physical semiotic. Medical simulation could be an effective instructional tool in teaching and deepening auscultation. Handheld ultrasound devices could be used for screening or for integrating and improving auscultatory abilities of physicians; the electronic stethoscope, with its new digital capabilities, will help to achieve a correct diagnosis. The availability of innovative representations of the sounds with phono- and spectrograms provides an important aid in diagnosis, in teaching practice and pedagogy. Technological innovations, despite their undoubted value, must complement and not supplant a complete physical examination; clinical auscultation remains an important and cost-effective screening method for the physicians in cardiorespiratory diagnosis. Cardiac auscultation has a future, and the stethoscope has not yet become a medical heirloom.
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