RAP (ASX) Ann: Paediatric Study Published In Peer-Reviewed Journal

Originally posted by Slykes: ↑

Why would you remove 5 simple questions that are easily answered that help improve accuracy?
When you get your patients are you mute for the entire consultation and if they speak and explain any additional symptoms do you tell them to shut up for the entire visit and let your stethoscope be your only tool. No, because you're trained to use all available easily gained information to form your diagnosis.

Now imagine for a minute that the patient wasn't sitting in front of you but was on the end of the phone asking for help. Would you ask questions? would you even perhaps get them to cough into the phone if they could so you could try to listen for the whistles and pops? Of course you would. This is what Resapp does, except over the phone, it's going to do it better than you.

In a clinical setting, I have no doubt that when doctors had the time to listen to patients and get the equivalent of a golden ear for all the associated sounds that come with various diseases that they could be quite accurate but the fact is, that there's simply not that time or training available any more. Recognising that and adding another piece of equipment that can assist shouldn't be looked as a negative, but a positive. You're providing a better level of care for a nominal cost and no additional time. Not to mention you may not have to take sputum samples or carry out chest xrays. I'm not talking about the emergency department, but on a standard consultation, or, if some rando walks in off the street to the emergency department without any immediately serious symptoms, perhaps get them to cough a little if they're reporting respiratory issues. Surely you can see the benefits here?

Source of my thoughts: Have discussed with several family members that are either a GP, Anaesthetist and Intensivist. All of them believe that any way of reducing wait times with accuracy that is similar to a consultation combined with xrays and other tests would be of great benefit, particularly if its so low cost. As they've all done their remote country stints they also recognised that it would be excellent in such locations since the likelihood of having a good ear and fast turn around on testing is lower.

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