The sound is loud, hollow, and high pitched. Bronchial breath sound: The bronchial breath sound is audible over the trachea as a person breathes out.It is also continuous, more intense, and high pitched during inhalation than exhalation. The sound is soft, low pitched, and rustling in quality. Vesicular breath sounds occur when air flows into and out of the lungs during breathing. Normal lung or vesicular breath sound: A doctor can hear this sound over most of the chest with a stethoscope, a device for listening to a person’s internal body sounds.Healthcare professionals classify them in the following ways:
These factors can help them determine whether the sounds from the lungs are regular or not.īreath sounds can differ depending on where they occur in the respiratory system.
When a doctor listens to a person’s lungs, they note the frequency, intensity, and quality of the sounds they hear.
