Graves medical 76-88 : lung sounds.

Date:
1976
  • Audio

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Description

This audio recording contains various lung sounds including normal and abnormal breath sounds (bronchitis, wheezes, and other adventitious sounds) carefully explained by Dr Paul Forgacs. Treatment before and after aerosol treatment is demonstrated. Severe obstruction of the trachea or the larynx is heard; this sound is very distinctive and known as 'stridor'. Forgacs asks for clinicians to be consistent with their description of medical sounds and provides helpful guidance on the precise nature of the sounds whether a wheze or a crackle. He compares the sounds to music.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : Graves Medical Audiovisual Library, 1976.

Physical description

2 sound cassettes (21 min. each)

Contributors

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Graves Medical Audiovisual Library

Notes

Paul Forgacs (1914-1992) was born in Hungary. He studied in Hungary and Guy's Hospital, London and served as a lieutenant colonel in the British Army. In his obituary in the BMJ (volume 305, 24 October 1992), his son mentions his father's love for acoustics and music which led to him conscientiously listening to the clinical recordings in his home study. Forgacs published a seminal book, 'Lung Sounds' on his subject.

Creator/production credits

Graves Medical Audiovisual Library.

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