Bronchophony is an imitation of sound vibrations arising from a conversation in a quiet, almost inaudible voice. During the analysis, these vibrations will be transmitted in the sternum, and with their help it is possible to diagnose several diseases, as well as monitor the progress of treatment.
Now we will examine in more detail the concept itself, the history of its occurrence, the methodology for conducting and decoding the results.
What is bronchophony?
Bronchophony is a symptom of a disease associated with breathing, listened to by the reproduction of words in a quiet voice, thus diagnosing known diseases and problems in the lungs and bronchi.
Bronchophonia reveals pneumonia (acute pneumonia), bronchitis, bronchial asthma, tuberculosis and other diseases in the sternum.
In a normal state, a person has a trumpet voice that can be heard at the level of the bronchi. The volume, brightness and saturation of sounds reproduced by a person and heard in the lungs depend on the voice and timbre.
Listen should be in place between the shoulder blades, in the region of the fourth vertebra. The bronchi are located there, which gives a high-quality sound for the most accurate characteristics of wheezing and the doctor’s ability to make the most likely and correct diagnosis, according to which specialists will then prescribe treatment. Health and, in some cases, human life depend on it.
In acute inflammatory diseases of the human respiratory organs, the development of pathologies of the lungs and bronchi either becomes very strong or weakens, sometimes it develops very quickly, so you need to quickly make a diagnosis and prescribe treatment.
In the presence of pathologies, bronchophony intensifies or weakens, depending on the cause. You can also listen to noise during the development of parenchyma diseases, when lung tissue is deprived of air.
Bronchophony consists of a general examination, palpation, percussion, auscultation - listening, listening, will be described later. It is of great importance in diagnosing the development of diseases of the respiratory system of the human body. For example, by the appearance of wheezing, you can put, confirm, refute the diagnosis. For ordinary people, this is also relevant, so that at home you can determine that everything is not in order, and seek help from a specialist.
The history and development of this diagnostic method
Direct listening to the lungs (without the help of specialized equipment) has ancient roots, back in the days of the existence of tribes they listened to the sternum region to determine whether a person is sick or not.
But the description of wheezing and the definition of bronchophony is first given in Egyptian papyrus about one and a half thousand years BC and in the works of Hippocrates, who personally listened and trained healers, telling how best to put the ear to the sternum, and how separate wheezing sounds, what they mean .
Symptoms in which to listen to the lungs
Bronchophonia is the process of diagnosing symptoms of respiratory problems. It should be done when the physical condition can be determined that a person is sick. Symptoms: rapid pulse, fever, hard breathing, cough with terrifying wheezing.
Bronchophonia is the earliest and indisputable symptom that diagnoses the developing processes of tissue compaction. Sealing creates an area that conducts well sounds and words pronounced by the diseased. They will be clearly audible and distinguishable by every sound of bronchophony and voice trembling.
Diagnosis of diseases
Bronchophony is a good diagnostic method, rooted in the distant past.
It can be heard over the air-formed cavities with a sealed capsule due to the manifestation of the resonance effect.
When a resonant effect appears above an empty cavity, a loud amphoric sound often appears, sometimes a metallic echo appears, this is referred to as pectoralocilia by professionals. Egophony is heard at the highest border of the pleural effusion, while the sound is accompanied by a rattling, nasal tone.
How is bronchophony performed?
The attending specialist should stand on the right side in front of a sick person, a phonendoscope should be applied to the lunge above the collarbone on the right side. The doctor asks the person to speak quietly with hissing sounds and gradually moves the listening device to the symmetrical portion of the patient’s back. After manipulation, the results are analyzed.
After the diagnosis, carried out in this way, the patient is given a preliminary diagnosis, recommendations for further examination (if there are extraneous noise, wheezing, whistling).
The study of bronchophony allows to identify pathologies in the lungs and respiratory tract. If the disease is serious: pneumonia, tuberculosis, then fluorography is prescribed, and the doctor’s consultation follows, the specialist analyzes the picture.
Deciphering the results
Deciphering the results occurs only by the attending physicians. In no case at home grandmas-healers. This is the last century. Now there is a system for evaluating the results of the analysis of wheezing, described in professional medical literature.
Dry wheezing means inflammation, bronchitis, bronchial asthma.
Wet - severe bronchitis, tuberculosis, acute respiratory viral diseases.
But whistling in the lungs means pneumonia.
Wet noises are usually diagnosed, because in the early stages, most diseases do not show themselves brightly.
What is auscultation?
Auscultation is the final stage of bronchophony, listening to the lungs. In this case, the most important moment of the diagnostic process occurs, and it is determined in what condition the patient's lungs are. The severity of the disease can only be determined with the help of pictures, it will not work out with sounds, because they depend on the voice and each person has this parameter individually.
In the normal state of the lungs and the absence of developing diseases, words cannot be distinguished. In other cases, the subject is ill.
Determination of noise and whistle in the development of pneumonia
Bronchophony with pneumonia is characterized by the appearance of hard breathing, it is especially clearly and clearly audible when various symptoms are attached and the inflammation in the bronchi develops simultaneously.
The separation of types of noise in this case goes into three large groups: wet, dry, friction. The latter is the most dangerous, with the threat of the emergence and development of tuberculosis.
Wet rales are large, medium, small bubble. Dry - low and high pitched. Such noises rarely appear, mostly wet with discharge of sputum. At the same time, buzzing, whistling is manifested with dry wheezing. A wet accompanied by a constant cough, because the body is trying to spew phlegm.
Pleural friction wheezing is formed during friction of the serous membrane due to a loss of surface smoothness, while wetting of this place decreases. Such wheezing is like rubbing dry palms against each other.
Output
Bronchophony is a very important process in the diagnosis, analysis of respiratory and lung diseases, the development of microorganisms and viruses, which are very dangerous. To prescribe treatment only this procedure will not be enough. Their development and untimely diagnosis can lead to disability and even death. The diagnostic value of bronchophony is very large.
Therefore, monitor your health, be treated on time, undergo examinations and at the first symptoms, contact your local doctor from the city clinic (in serious condition you can call home)!