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Normal breath sounds

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Listen for: A soft, low rustle. Inspiration is longer and louder; expiration is shorter and fades early. No gap between them, nothing added.

Usually means: Normal vesicular breath sounds: the baseline for every chest.

16 recordings of this finding.

References3
  1. Bickley LS, Szilagyi PG, Hoffman RM, Soriano RP. Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking. 13th ed. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer; 2021. Thorax and lungs chapter.
  2. Bohadana A, Izbicki G, Kraman SS. Fundamentals of lung auscultation. N Engl J Med. 2014;370(8):744-51.
  3. Sarkar M, Madabhavi I, Niranjan N, Dogra M. Auscultation of the respiratory system. Ann Thorac Med. 2015;10(3):158-68.