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This article is part of the supplement: 31st International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

Poster presentation

Continuous elevation of lung sound amplitudes, recorded at fixed flow rate, may indicate an increase in lung water content

S Lev1*, P Singer1, K Robinson2, K Hojnowski2, L Wolloch3, L Gatto4 and GF Nieman2

  • * Corresponding author: S Lev

Author Affiliations

1 Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petach Tikva, Israel

2 SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA

3 Deep Breeze Ltd, Or-Akiva, Israel

4 SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY, USA

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Critical Care 2011, 15(Suppl 1):P174 doi:10.1186/cc9594

Published: 11 March 2011

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

Vibration response imaging (VRI) is a bedside lung sound monitoring system. We previously reported that vibration intensity can be significantly elevated in patients with congestion, as opposed to pleural effusion, atelectasis, or normal lung [1]. We hypothesized that changes in lung water content (that is, pulmonary edema) may influence breath sound amplitude and explored the possibility of using continuous digitalized lung sound monitoring as a means to track changes in extravascular lung water (EVLW).