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Demonstration of The KINECT-Based Auscultation Practice System

Authors:
Yoshitoshi Murata
Kazuhiro Yoshida
Natsuko Miura

Keywords: auscultation, physical assessmen, demonstration

Abstract:
Students in medical and nursing schools must practice auscultation. Students usually learn disease sounds, correct points and order for locating a stethoscope on a body in the practice. Humanoid-type simulators have been widely introduced to practice auscultation. However, most humanoid-type simulators cannot detect whether a stethoscope is located on a body, and on which part of body a stethoscope is placed. Since they are too expensive, the number of them is not enough for the number of students in a class. We developed a low-cost and high performance system for the practice of auscultation. In this system, students themselves play the role of a patient, instead of a humanoid, and stethoscope locations on the body are measured with KINECT. Also, appropriate disease sounds including normal ones can be assigned at some points on the upper body. Students listen for such sounds, synchronized with breathing movements, through an earphone or speaker when a stethoscope is placed on assigned points. We plan to conduct a demonstration in which participants will practice auscultation with the system after it is explained to them.

Pages: 99 to 100

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: March 19, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4359

ISBN: 978-1-61208-540-1

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from March 19, 2017 to March 23, 2017