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: nora 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
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