Medstudents' Lung Sounds

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2) Save it to your disk(computer) in a place(directory) that you know.
3) Go to this directory and click on the file(heart sound) that you have saved.

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Normal Vesicular Sounds - Recorded over the left anterior upper lobe of a 15 year old male adolescent.

Bronchial Breath Sounds - - Recorded over the right anterior upper lobe of a 12 year old boy.

Wheezing - Recorded over the right anterior upper chest of an 8 year old boy with asthma.

Crackles - Recorded over the right posterior lower chest of a 9 year old boy with pneumonia.

Tracheal - Recorded over the trachea of a healthy 26 year old man. (Note: this is a stereo file with simultaneous recording over trachea and posterior right lower lung)

Crackles and Bronchial Breathing Arteriosus - Recorded posteriorly over the consolidated left lower lung of a 16 year old boy with tuberculosis. (Note: this is a stereo file with simultaneous recording over both left and right lung)

Inspiratory Squawk and Crackles - Recorded over the right posterior upper chest of a 78 year old woman with interstitial pulmonary fibrosis. (Note: this is a stereo file with simultaneous recording over both right and left lung)

Stridor - Recorded over the trachea of a 15 month old girl with croup.

Grunting - Recorded at the mouth of a premature baby girl with respiratory distress 7 hours after birth.

All lung sounds appear courtesy of the R.A.L.E Repository. To find out more about these lung sounds, how they were recorded or information about lung sounds in general, please visit there.

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