Pune: A digital stethoscope called ‘AyuSynk’ was developed by a start-up company Ayu Devices, based in IIT-Bombay. It is being deployed for remote auscultation that is to listen to chest sounds.
Dr Sudip Pandit, a paediatrician, is using this digital stethoscope since January 2020 and said that the device is excellent and much clearer than a regular stethoscope. “I am using it to screen patients with coronavirus,” said Dr Pandit.
The device allows storing the auscultated sound as part of the health record of the patient and sharing with other doctors for confirmatory opinion. Many patients diagnosed with COVID-19 experience shortness of breath, leading to acute respiratory distress syndrome.
Since the coronavirus outbreak, several digital stethoscopes have been delivered to hospitals across the country.
Adarsha K, the founder of Ayu Devices, said that ‘AyuSynk’ could be attached to any conventional stethoscope, to amplify chest sounds and send them wirelessly from patients to doctors without physical tubing.
“The basic version of the digital stethoscope called AyuLynk can be connected to mobile or laptop through a wire. The advanced version AyuSynk was developed in November 2019, to transmit data from the stethoscope to mobile or laptop via Bluetooth,” said Adarsha K.
The product was developed by him and another innovator Tapas, at BETIC Lab in IIT Bombay, with clinical inputs from Dr Nambiraj Konar at Reliance Hospital and Dr Lancelot Pinto at PD Hinduja Hospital.
