Wheeze - Expiratory | Auscultation Cheat Sheet with Sounds & Video | #143

Wheezes are adventitious lung sounds that are continuous with a musical quality. Wheezes can be high or low-pitched. High-pitched wheezes may have an auscultation sound similar to squeaking. Lower-pitched wheezes have a snoring or moaning quality. The proportion of the respiratory cycle occupied by the wheeze roughly corresponds to the degree of airway obstruction. Wheezes are caused by narrowing of the airways.

Patient Sounds

patient heart or lung sound
Wheeze - Expiratory

Half Speed Patient Sounds

patient heart or lung sound
Wheeze - Expiratory

Technique

Patient position
The patient's position should be sitting.

Auscultation Tips

Features:Loud, musical and continuous sounds occurring in expiration. Heard over anterior, posterior and lateral chest walls

Sound Wave

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