Sometimes health conditions or foreign objects in the lungs can cause changes in your breath sounds, such as wheezing or crackles. Breath sounds come from the lungs when you breathe in and out. A ...

As part of a comprehensive lung exam, a doctor may try to listen for various sounds by tapping your back and chest with their hand, which is a test called percussion. If the percussion produces a drum ...

After listening to a patients’ heart and lung sounds, many specialists will write a note describing what they heard in the electronic medical record. The problems with that include: • These ...