No physical examination finding on its own showed enough inter-rater reliability to diagnose pediatric community-acquired pneumonia, indicating the need for alternative diagnostic methods. Respiratory ...

When a child has symptoms that could be pneumonia, doctors often listen to the child's lungs with a stethoscope to help make a diagnosis. But a new national study led by physician-scientists at Ann & ...

Clinicians caring for children with suspected pneumonia may rely too heavily on auscultation from the stethoscope and assume hearing wheezing or crackles are objective findings that can be ...

Adventitious breath sounds are abnormal lung sounds like rattles, crackles, and wheezes, heard during a chest exam. These abnormal sounds can be a sign of conditions like pneumonia, COPD, or heart ...

Rhonchi are low-pitched sounds in the larger airways heard during exhalation and can be relieved by coughing. Rales, also known as crackles, are high or low-pitched sounds heard during inhalation and ...

A 75-year-old woman was admitted for the treatment of uterine fibroids and underwent laparoscopic total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy under general anesthesia. On the first ...

When you go for a sick visit or your annual checkup at your doctor's office, they will likely listen to your chest through a stethoscope. Part of what they're listening for is the sounds your lungs ...

Abstract: When evaluating the efficacy of expectoration, it is essential not only to consider the subjective perception of patients but also to rely on objective assessment indicators. Crackles, as a ...

Patients with shock frequently present with tachycardia, tachypnea, hypotension, altered mental status changes, and oliguria. Patients with septic shock or systemic inflammatory response syndrome ...

Lung sounds are the noises a person makes as they breathe in and out, including sounds of regular breathing. However, wheezing, crackling, stridor, and other sounds can also occur, indicating an ...

Abstract: A Multi-Channel Stethograph System (STG system) was designed and developed as an electronic auscultation system for recording heart, lung, and trachea sounds non-invasively through an ...

Abnormal breath sounds may include crackling or wheezing. They may be a sign of an underlying medical condition. Breath sounds, also called lung sounds, are the noises that the structures in the lungs ...