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Vesicular - Diminished | Auscultation Cheat Sheet with Sounds & Video | #135

Diminished vesicular sounds are of lower intensity and are less full or robust than vesicular sounds. These sounds can occur in patients who move a lowered volume of air, such as in frail, elderly patients or shallow breathing patients. They are also heard with obese or highly muscular patients, where tissue mass impedes sound. They exhibit a normal inspiration to expiration ratio of 3 to 1, or 4 to 1.

Patient Sounds

patient heart or lung sound
Vesicular - Diminished

Half Speed Patient Sounds

patient heart or lung sound
Vesicular - Diminished

Technique

Patient position
The patient's position should be sitting.

Auscultation Tips

Features:Lower intensity than bronchial sounds, normal inspiration to expiration ratio of 3 to 1 or 4 to 1

Sound Wave

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Vesicular - Diminished | Auscultation Cheat Sheet with Sounds & Video | #135

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