An Ingestible Stethoscope
January 26, 2016 | Terry Sharrer
Heart and respiration rates are key indicators for many medical conditions, and while the stethoscope is now in its bicentennial year, it only gives information while it is being held to the patient’s chest or back. Engineers at MIT, however, have designed an ingestible stethoscope (i.e. a tiny microphone inside a silicon pill) that provides continuous acoustic evaluations as it passes through the G. I. tract (usually in one day). See the video with this piece. MORE WITH VIDEO
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