With COVID19 primary care clinicians are increasingly asked to consult on the phone or by video. People can tell us their pulse/ use an app like HeartRatePro to record their pulse/ record their temperature & email photos of skin lesions/ rashes - but it would be very useful to hear their breath sounds / heart etcThere is a smartphone case; https://stethio.com/ but in this time of compromise, can anyone develop an attachment that people will have in their homes (eg yoghurt pots etc) that might act as a useful transducer when held against the microphone of the phone?...or .. could a 3D printed attachment do this that could be widely distributed?(Background picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Stethoscope-2.png Sonarpulse. origenal:Huji Creative Common
Looking at how cheap ($200) is the price for the iphone-based adaptor, aside from the impressive software and apps that go with it, the hardware itself likely little more than a ported 'yogurt pot'. The difference is the acoustic energy is coupled via port to the smartphone's microphone, instead of coupling a diaphragm (or open bell) to eardrum via ear-drum-sized tubing.
thats an impressive opensource 3D printer project. I'm wondering if there is a widely available household item that could provide that acoustic coupling- so it's available to all when a clinician phones them?
Looking at how cheap ($200) is the price for the iphone-based adaptor, aside from the impressive software and apps that go with it, the hardware itself likely little more than a ported 'yogurt pot'. The difference is the acoustic energy is coupled via port to the smartphone's microphone, instead of coupling a diaphragm (or open bell) to eardrum via ear-drum-sized tubing.
https://github.com/GliaX/Stethoscope opensource conventional 3D printed
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/14/printed_stethoscope_cccamp/ story