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Comparison of lung sounds and gas trapping in the study of airway mechanics.

Author(s) -

D. G. Frazer,

L. David Smith,

L. R. Brancazio,

Karin Weber

Publication year - 1986

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.866625

Subject(s) - lung , crackles , airway , trapping , medicine , air trapping , chemistry , anatomy , pathology , acoustics , anesthesia , biology , physics , ecology

We have previously shown that gas is trapped in isolated animal lungs and have proposed that this gas-trapping process is related to meniscus formation in the small airways of the lung. The purpose of this investigation was to compare how the lung sound-generation process and the gas-trapping process are related to airway mechanics and each other. Rats were anesthetized, the heart and lungs were removed en bloc and placed in a liquid-filled plethysmograph. Lung sounds were recorded by using a microphone acoustically coupled to the tracheal cannula. The results show that discontinuous lung sounds in the form of crackles occur during lung inflation at the same time gas trapping takes place.

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