🎧 Headphones on! In addition to inspection, palpation, and percussion, examination of the lungs also involves stethoscope auscultation. In this video you will hear fine crackles (rales) in the basal portion of both lungs, especially during inspiration. Fine crackles are abnormal lung sounds that can be heard, for example, in patients with pneumonia. Listen to more lung auscultations via the AMBOSS Lung Auscultation Library Article (link in bio): https://go.amboss.com/FineRalesFB #ambossmed #med

– LUNG SOUNDS, MADE EASY– 🫁You’ll never truly learn until you hear them during assessment, but remember this information during your next auscultation of a patient’s lungs! 🫁Be sure you’re completing your assessment properly (side-by-side auscultation and comparisons bilaterally!) 🫁Document what YOU hear & YOUR assessment findings. Even if the nurse before you did not hear crackles at the left base, but you do, your assessment stands. That thorough listening is what helps us notice status cha