The phrase "audible leak" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where a sound or noise is perceptible, often related to a leak of air, gas, or liquid that can be heard.
Example: "During the inspection, we discovered an audible leak coming from the old pipe, indicating a potential issue that needed immediate attention."
Alternatives: "detectable leak" or "hearable leak".
Effective ventilation was judged by bilateral symmetrical chest movement during manual ventilation, square wave on capnograph, no audible leak from the mouth and lack of gastric insufflation [ 8].
Adequacy is generally checked by palpation of the pilot balloon and sometimes readjusted by the intubator by inflating just enough to stop an audible leak.
The position of the device was accepted and graded as "adequate oropharyngeal seal" if there was no audible leak at this tidal volume, and if the capnography trace showed a normal plateau phase.
Oropharyngeal leak pressure was determined by slowly increasing the airway pressure with a constant fresh gas flow into the circuit in the closed manual mode until an audible leak was detected from the mouth and/or by ausculation over the larynx [ 8].
If re-intubation might be difficult (e.g. laryngeal or tracheal oedema in patients with pre-eclampsia or after traumatic intubation) or there is a concern with oxygenation, supplementary airway evaluation by direct laryngoscopy, fibreoptic examination or confirmation of an audible leak around a tracheal tube with the cuff deflated may be required.
By that time, however, the sound of his fuzz-tone guitar was already clearly audible, leaking into the open mics directed at the other instruments.
This protects against mucosal injury whilst allowing ventilation without an audible air leak [ 1].
Eight patients had appropriately high CPs (mean CP 52 cmH2O) as reducing the CP caused an audible air leak to occur.
Clinical detection of an audible air-leak with or without a stethoscope was in agreement in 84% of cases.
Leakage was defined as air escape audible with a stethoscope placed on the larynx, and leak pressure was defined as the airway pressure at which leakage was first detected [ 12].
ALT was considered positive when no air-leak was audible and/or the PCL is less than 10%.
