Emergency Medicine and Acute Care

Learning lung sounds (auscultation) requires repetitive listening to diff erent areas of the chest. Th is virtual reality tool will assist students in knowing where to place the stethoscope on the chest to enable them to diff erentiate between normal and abnormal chest sounds in clinical practice. Th e THORAX is developed as a tool that can be uploaded to any virtual learning environment and utilizes a rotatable torso with full sets of lungs sound were recorded from individual patients; thus providing an authentic experience of full respiratory auscultation. THORAX consists of two sections. Th e fi rst section is a training section that utilizes sanitized and fi ltered lungs sounds to acclimatize the student to the variant sounds possible. Th e second section utilizes sets of recordings that consist of 12 recordings per patient. Th ese recordings will enable students to localize problems to particular lobes and also contain ambient sounds such as the heart and gut sounds that contribute to authentic lung auscultation.