Francesca Battista,1,2 Federica Haupt,1,3 and Janine Splettstoesser1,4 1Institut für Theorie der Statistischen Physik, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany and JARA-Fundamentals of Future Information Technology 2Departamento de Fı́sica, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires and IFIBA, Pabellón I, Ciudad Universitaria, 1428 CABA Argentina 3JARA Institute for Quantum Information, RWTH Aach...

The stethoscope has been used for many years, and it has been very effective to diagnose certain pulmonologic and cardiologic sounds. From many years healthcare professionals would listen quietly to patients internal organs so they could diagnose from specific sounds of such internal organs. The sound level of an acoustic stethoscope is very low, making heart diagnosis more difficult. In this p...

We have developed an Internet-based tool for remote realtime auscultation. The device was based on a commercially available electronic stethoscope and a PC which digitized and transmitted the signals. A voice and video channel were also available. The remote auscultation tool was evaluated between two sites in Sweden separated by a distance of 500 km. A doctor at one of the sites performed card...