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'They just aren't loud enough, and hospitals can be noisy places. 'Lungs don't produce enough sound for a normal person to hear,' Bharat said. By capturing sounds in both directions, an algorithm can separate external (ambient or neighboring organ) sounds and internal body sounds.

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Within that small footprint, the device contains a flash memory drive, tiny battery, electronic components, Bluetooth capabilities and two tiny microphones - one facing inward toward the body and another facing outward toward the exterior. By simultaneously capturing sounds and correlating those sounds to body processes, the devices spatially map how air flows into, through and out of the lungs as well as how cardiac rhythm changes in varied resting and active states, and how food, gas and fluids move through the intestines.Įncapsulated in soft silicone, each device measures 40 millimeters long, 20 millimeters wide and 8 millimeters thick.

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and started a first-of-its-kind lung transplant program for certain patients with stage 4 lung cancers.Ĭomprehensive, non-invasive sensing networkĬontaining pairs of high-performance, digital microphones and accelerometers, the small, lightweight devices gently adhere to the skin to create a comprehensive non-invasive sensing network. As the director of the Northwestern Medicine Canning Thoracic Institute, Bharat performed the first double-lung transplants on COVID-19 patients in the U.S. Bharat is the chief of thoracic surgery and the Harold L. He also directs the Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics. Rogers is the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Neurological Surgery at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

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Simply put, it's like up to 13 highly trained doctors listening to different regions of the lungs simultaneously with their stethoscopes, and their minds are synced to create a continuous and a dynamic assessment of the lung health that is translated into a movie on a real-life computer screen.' 'A key advantage of this device is to be able to simultaneously listen and compare different regions of the lungs. Ankit Bharat, a thoracic surgeon at Northwestern Medicine, who led the clinical research in the adult subjects. 'The idea behind these devices is to provide highly accurate, continuous evaluation of patient health and then make clinical decisions in the clinics or when patients are admitted to the hospital or attached to ventilators,'said Dr. In close collaborations with our clinical teams, we set out to develop a new strategy for monitoring patients in real-time on a continuous basis and without encumbrances associated with rigid, wired, bulky technology.' 'Physicians have to put a conventional, or a digital, stethoscope on different parts of the chest and back to listen to the lungs in a point-by-point fashion.

Rogers, a bioelectronics pioneer who led the device development. 'Currently, there are no existing methods for continuously monitoring and spatially mapping body sounds at home or in hospital settings,' said Northwestern's John A. Not only did the devices perform with clinical-grade accuracy, they also offered new functionalities that have not been developed nor introduced into research or clinical care. In pilot studies, researchers tested the devices on 15 premature babies with respiratory and intestinal motility disorders and 55 adults, including 20 with chronic lung diseases. The new study will be published on Thursday (Nov. Softly adhered to the skin, the devices continuously track these subtle sounds simultaneously and wirelessly at multiple locations across nearly any region of the body. Now, Northwestern University researchers are introducing new soft, miniaturized wearable devices that go well beyond episodic measurements obtained during occasional doctor exams.