The aid has been created by University of Huddersfield podiatry lecturer, Mr Andrew Sharpe, who has compiled a digital library of the varied sounds that can be picked up during the Doppler ultrasound procedure. Visitors to his website http://pad-database.co.uk/ can hear the sounds, which are accompanied by case histories and the information that clinicians need to make a peripheral arterial disease assessment.
A team of experts – a vascular nurse, vascular podiatrist and vascular sonographer – also provide case-by-case conclusions and explain how they would proceed on the website.
“The basic premise is that sound waves do not provide a