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How to listen to lung sounds. As he places the stethoscope on your back, the doctor says, Take a deep breath.. As an RT who has listened to the lung sounds of over 10,000 patients, I will tell you that having a patient take in a deep breath is not the ideal way to listen to lung sounds. Ideally, you want the patient to breath normal. The reason is you want to hear what a patent's lungs sound like when he is breathing normal.
So, here is an RT 101 coarse on how to listen to lung sounds. If I disagree with what you learned in RT, RN or DR school I apologize. But this is how you hear lung sounds. First, you listen to the apices while the patient is breathing normal. Many times, though, the patient could have the worse lung sounds and still sound clear in the front, so this should never be the only place you listen.