Lung and Heart sound from Tromso Study

Lung and Heart sound from Tromso Study

by Hasse Melbye
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  • Completely Free
  • Postsecondary
  • Canvas
  • English

Features include:

40 cases with high quality heart and lung sound recordings. The Sounds are presented with spectrograms. Clinical information including echocardiography and spirometry show how abnormal sounds can be associated with heart valve disease, heart failure, and COPD. Clinical cases are followed with interactivity and prompt feedback. You find a trailer here: App trailer

For teachers:

An educational tool with common abnormal chest sounds and common heart and lung diseases A relevant supplementary tool for classroom or digital teaching

For students:

A unique material for learning heart and lung sounds Interactivity is facilitated through questions and prompt feed-back Skills for identifying and interpreting abnormal heart and lung sounds are evaluated through a scoring system

For physicians:

A variety of sound are presented in a clinical context familiar to internists and GPs The sounds are interpreted from a primary care point of view The classification and interpretation of the sounds have been made by a team of cardiologists, general practitioners and lung sounds researchers

Installation Instructions

Installation can be done through the external app section of a canvas course. The app will install itself as a course navigation link.

It can also be done manually from a course by clicking:

1 “Settings” on left sidebar.

2 “Apps” in the headerbar

3 Blue “+App” in the external apps page

4 Select “past in XML” in the “Configuration Type” dropdown menu

5 Choose a “name” that you want to call the app. “Consumer Key” and “Shared Secret” can be empty

6 Past in the XML configuration from this link: https://www.eduappcenter.com/configurations/c1sl9cjj4ok8r7u1.xml into the “XML configuration” box.

7 Click “Submit”

Config Options
Accessibility Documentation:
For more information regarding accessibility and our product, please Reach out to us.
Security Information:
A security assessment of the app, including privacy and safe handling of personal information, has been performed following guidelines from UIT The Arctic University of Norway
Privacy Policy:
Privacy level is set to anonymous in the configuration file, which means that the only information we store on our servers is anonymized canvas unique user-id, and email if it is provided. The user id is necessary for saving the progress each user has in our app. For more information regarding our policy visit: https://lungsounds.medsens.io/privacy
LMS API's your app uses:
We use the ruby on rails package https://github.com/instructure/ims-lti, which implements LTI api. Specifically we use Services::MessageAuthenticator in order to validate the lti launch request.
Configuration URL: Paste this URL into your LMS