Current Diagnostic Techniques for Pneumonia: A Scoping ReviewShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: Sensors, E-ISSN 1424-8220, Vol. 24, no 13, article id 4291
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Abstract [en]
Community-acquired pneumonia is one of the most lethal infectious diseases, especially for infants and the elderly. Given the variety of causative agents, the accurate early detection of pneumonia is an active research area. To the best of our knowledge, scoping reviews on diagnostic techniques for pneumonia are lacking. In this scoping review, three major electronic databases were searched and the resulting research was screened. We categorized these diagnostic techniques into four classes (i.e., lab-based methods, imaging-based techniques, acoustic-based techniques, and physiological-measurement-based techniques) and summarized their recent applications. Major research has been skewed towards imaging-based techniques, especially after COVID-19. Currently, chest X-rays and blood tests are the most common tools in the clinical setting to establish a diagnosis; however, there is a need to look for safe, non-invasive, and more rapid techniques for diagnosis. Recently, some non-invasive techniques based on wearable sensors achieved reasonable diagnostic accuracy that could open a new chapter for future applications. Consequently, further research and technology development are still needed for pneumonia diagnosis using non-invasive physiological parameters to attain a better point of care for pneumonia patients.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2024. Vol. 24, no 13, article id 4291
Keywords [en]
community-acquired pneumonia, COVID-19, diagnostic radiography, medical diagnosis, non-invasive measurements, Humans, Pneumonia, SARS-CoV-2, Diagnosis, Physiological models, Physiology, Causative agents, Current diagnostics, Diagnostics techniques, Electronic database, Infectious disease, Non- invasive measurements, Physiological measurement, Research areas, Scoping review, coronavirus disease 2019, diagnostic imaging, human, isolation and purification, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
National Category
Clinical Medicine
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-68111DOI: 10.3390/s24134291ISI: 001269799500001PubMedID: 39001069Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85198328908OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mdh-68111DiVA, id: diva2:1885573
2024-07-242024-07-242024-07-31Bibliographically approved