TY - JOUR
T1 - Acoustic monitoring--super sonics?
AU - Marini, John J.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1186/cc7908
DO - 10.1186/cc7908
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 19664167
AN - SCOPUS:75549092107
SN - 1364-8535
VL - 13
SP - 162
JO - Critical care (London, England)
JF - Critical care (London, England)
IS - 4
ER -