Volume 28, Issue 147, May 2024

Characteristics of pathological types of breathing in children with community-acquired pneumonia using the "Trembita- Corona" acoustic monitoring device

Olha Khomych¹, Oksana Malezhyk², Liudmyla Popova², Natalia Kyzyma³, Yuriy Marushko¹

¹Bogomolets National Medical University, 13, Тarasa Shevchenko blvd., Kyiv-01601, Ukraine
²Children's Clinical Hospital № 7 of Pechersk District, Kyiv, Ukraine
³Kyiv Medical University, Kyiv, Ukraine

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Pneumonia presents a significant challenge in the practical medicine due to its potential to result in severe complications and pose health hazards. Aims: To enhance acoustic diagnostics and identify the main pathological types of breathing in children with community-acquired pneumonia using the "Trembita- Corona" acoustic monitoring device. Methods: This study adopts a prospective, analytical, and cross-sectional design, involving 330 participants aged between 1 month and 18 years. We categorized them into two groups: Group I comprised 230 patients diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), while group II consisted of 100 healthy children. Results: We designed the "Trembita- Corona" device for monitoring lung conditions in children. We employed mathematical algorithms for respiratory sound analysis eliminated human bias. Among children in Group I, we detected bronchial breathing in 213 (92.6%) cases and weakened vesicular breathing in 17 (7.4%) cases. We investigated the pathological bronchial type of breathing using the "Trembita-Corona" device. We found the difference (p<0.01) in the amplitude of the acoustic signal between the two types of breathing across various octaves (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8). Conclusion: The "Trembita-Corona" acoustic monitoring device and its accompanying software enable precise discrimination between pathological and typical breathing patterns in children, thereby facilitating prompt and accurate diagnosis of lung pathologies.

Keywords: Community-acquired pneumonia, acoustic diagnostics, "Trembita- Corona", children

Medical Science, 2024, 28, e44ms3346

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v28i147.e44ms3346

Published: 24 May 2024