Oscillating lung sounds on a vent??

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does anyone know where i can find samples of oscillating lung sounds on a vent? i can find recordings of many other lung sounds, but nothing on a vent. i'm going into rt and i've been told this is something to understand before i go.

thanks so much!!

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She probably means on an oscillator, which is a special ventilator machine that gives you hundreds of breaths per minute.

Sorry, can't help you out there; I work in the NICU and we just chart, "good jiggle" because you can't really auscultate the sounds.

I thought the same thing...jet vents/oscillators are pretty loud and fast....perhaps just ensuring that there is that "pounding" noise in the chest wall area?

I guess it sounds like a muffled train? choo choo choo choo choo choo choo choo x 500...

Oh that analogy sucks...sorry =( I don't know how to spell that particular "noise."

It just sounds like pounding...a rhythmic, fast one....*shrugs*

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you turn the oscillator off??? we don't even disconnect for suctioning, we use in-lines...

We don't turn it off for the whole "handling" - just 10 seconds, or 20 at the most, to have a clearer listen to the baby's sounds.

Don't you find it difficult to hear murmurs or bowel sounds with the oscillator (or even worse, the jet) going?

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We don't turn it off for the whole "handling" - just 10 seconds, or 20 at the most, to have a clearer listen to the baby's sounds.

Don't you find it difficult to hear murmurs or bowel sounds with the oscillator (or even worse, the jet) going?

As a new grad i'm pretty new to the unit and oscillators but so far with the experience I have had with them we never turn them off, we disconnect for a quick flip and I haven't seen anyone try to listen to the baby in that time, in my experience with them, the kids we've had on oscillators will brady/desat so fast w/o them that it wouldn't be worth it to take them off for that long every few hours to listen for anything, we do listen to make sure the sounds are "equal" on each side of the chest but thats all, I haven't listened to any bowel sounds and the kids i've had on them aren't usually being fed or stooling...murmurs on the other hand I haven't seen assessed for either, maybe some do it or if there were a concern of any sort, but then again I haven't had many oscillating kids yet

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