Acoustic monitoring – super sonics?

doi:10.1186/cc7908

Critical Care
Volume 13
Issue 4

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Acoustic monitoring – super sonics?

John J Marini

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota Regions Hospital, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, MS11203B, 640 Jackson St, St Paul, Minnesota 55101, USA

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Critical Care 2009, 13:162doi:10.1186/cc7908


Published:	3 July 2009

See related research by Lev et al., http://ccforum.com/content/13/3/R66

Abstract

Vesicular breath sounds, wheezes, rhonchi, and crackles possess acoustic 'signatures' amenable to detection, quantification, and moment-by-moment visual display. Despite technical hurdles, new methods for sonic evaluation, once perfected, should offer innovative diagnostic and monitoring tools that add clinical value. These emerging options complement current 'static/global' monitoring of mechanics and gas exchange with dynamic regional information long missing from the optimal care of the ventilated patient with critical illness.