Open AccessThe Utility of Heart Sounds and Systolic Intervals Across the Care Continuum
Author(s) -
Peacock W. Frank,
Harrison Alex,
Maisel Alan S.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
congestive heart failure
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1751-7133
pISSN - 1527-5299
DOI - 10.1111/j.0889-7204.2006.05766.x
Subject(s) - medicine , heart failure , impedance cardiography , cardiology , cardiac catheterization , emergency department , clinical practice , intensive care medicine , stroke volume , physical therapy , ejection fraction , nursing
Acoustic cardiography is an exciting, new, easy‐to‐use, modernized technology that incorporates already proven techniques of phonocardiography. Application of acoustic cardiography to clinical practice can improve diagnosis and management of heart failure patients. Its clinical use should help address some of the need for robust, inexpensive, and widely accessible technology for proactive heart failure diagnosis and management. Acoustic cardiographically recorded measurements have been correlated with both cardiac catheterization and echocardiographically determined hemodynamic parameters. Heart sounds captured by acoustic cardiograms have proven to assist clinicians in assessing dyspneic patients in the emergency department by utilizing the strong specificity of an S 3 for detecting acute decompensated heart failure. Acoustic cardiography offers a cost‐efficient, easy‐to‐use method to optimize the devices used in cardiac resyncronization therapy. The rapidly and easily obtainable information gathered by acoustic cardiography should foster its more widespread use in diagnosis and treatment of heart failure, including cardiac resyncronization therapy device optimization.