iPods Help Doctors Recognize Heart Problems

[phillipjfry]

I thought this was kinda neat.

Doctors can greatly improve their stethoscope skills and therefore their ability to diagnose heart problems by listening repeatedly to heartbeats on their iPods.

http://www.livescience.com/technology/070325_ipod_heart.html

 

[psycoswimmer]

I just had a flash of House in one of the episodes last year sitting in the locker room listening to a heart beat on his iPod to find an erratic beat.

 

[phillipjfry]

I gotta start watching that show. It seems everyone I know is talking about it

 

[angelneo]

I just had a flash of House in one of the episodes last year sitting in the locker room listening to a heart beat on his iPod to find an erratic beat.

Haha... that is exactly what I thought of when I saw this thread.

 

[Xander562]

I bet if they listened to it on a Zune, it wouldn't help any.

 

[jimN]

When I got my first stephoscope (2000 I think), it came with a audio cd with common heart murmurs. I don't think that being able to listen to these on an Ipod is really that newsworthy 7 years later.

Watching House right now - brilliant.