Breath Sounds From Basic Science to Clinical Practice
This book offers up-to-date information on the recording and analysis of respiratory sounds that will assist in clinical routine. The opening sections deliver basic knowledge on aspects such as the physics of sound and sound transmission in the body, a cl
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Breath Sounds
Kostas N. Priftis Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis • Mark L. Everard Editors
Breath Sounds From Basic Science to Clinical Practice
Editors Kostas N. Priftis Children’s Respiratory and Allergy Unit Third Department of Paediatrics “Attikon” Hospital National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Athens Greece
Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Greece
Mark L. Everard Division of Child Health University of Western Australia Perth Children’s Hospital Perth Australia
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Preface
It is now just over 200 years since René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec invented the stethoscope and 2018 will be the bicentennial of the publication of his masterpiece, A treatise on the diseases of the chest and on mediate auscultation. The intervening centuries have seen the stethoscope becoming a ubiquitous tool that is synonymous, in the minds of the general public, with the medical profession. Despite repeated reports of its imminent demise, the stethoscope continues to evolve and contribute to clinical care throughout the world. In light of the imminent anniversary of Laennec’s textbook, it seems appropriate to revisit the role of this inexpensive tool in the assessment of respiratory health and disease and consider its future in a world in which the conventional stethoscope is, in a number of s
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