Breathtaking: The Future Of Respiratory Care And Pulmonology

Smoke-measuring smart shirts, breath sound analyzing algorithms, and smart inhalers pave the way of pulmonology and respiratory care into the future. As the number of patients suffering from asthma, COPD, or lung cancer due to rising air pollution and steady smoker-levels will unfortunately not decrease any time soon, we looked around what technology can do to help both patients and caregivers. The results are breathtaking. Attacks of breathlessness are too common The diseases which pulmonologists and respiratory care specialists attempt to fight are among the most common conditions in the modern world – and the numbers of sufferers are just aggravating. According to WHO estimates, 235 million people suffer from asthma, the chronic disease characterized by recurrent attacks of breathlessness and wheezing. About 300,000 new patients are diagnosed with asthma annually, and nearly 250,000 people die prematurely each year due to the condition. For adults, this chronic disease is one of the top reasons for underperformance at work. Sufferers miss about 14 million workdays each year, and this equals about 2 billion dollars of indirect asthma costs. Regarding the other widespread condition, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), 64 million people live with it globally, but the WHO predicts that the illness will become the third leading cause of death worldwide by 2030 due to the rise of air pollution, and the persistent habit of smoking. Other chronic disease...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Artificial Intelligence Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers AI asthma cancer cancer treatment care COPD diagnostics inhaler lung lung cancer management medical specialty pulmonology respiratory respiratory care Source Type: blogs