Pulmonary Breath Sounds: Hear a Death Rattle and more

[liveonearth]

http://faculty.etsu.edu/arnall/www/public_html/heartlung/breathsounds/contents.html
These are fascinating, and horrifying.

Comments

[b-vainamoinen.livejournal.com]

Okay. I'm not a doctor, but if I recall correctly from my time in hospice - the "death rattle" (more genteely described as "terminal congestion") is NOT the "lungs filling up with fluid."

The person who is dying has lost the ability to clear his/her throat and the phlegm is just rattling in the back of his/her windpipe.