 Hi guys, so today's video is going to be on how and where to listen to battle tones battle tones tell us a lot about a Person's GI motility. You know if they're hyperactive. Do they have diarrhea or they digesting food? Do they just eat or are they hypoactive or absent and we're having slow gastric motility? That's Potentially could be something like an ileus or just constipation or things like that So I'm going to show you where to auscultate battle tones on my husband Jesse and he's going to be my test Demonstration person, so I know we're kind of at an awkward angle here, but there's four regions that you want to listen to Battle tones and that's going to be your upper quadrants and your lower quadrants bilaterally So I always start with the patient's right upper quadrant It doesn't really matter where you start But you're going to want to compare bilaterally and I always listen until I hear a couple battle tones and I go Then the next area then I go to their lower quadrant and to the next quadrant and make sure I hear about here Active battle sounds now if they're coming quite frequently Then they're more likely hyperactive if you're only hearing maybe one every You know it could be a few minutes or one every 30 seconds. That's most likely hypoactive a normal person You should be able to put your stethoscope on and hear about some with in like the first 10 or 15 seconds If not multiple you can't technically say that a person has absent bow town I keep saying towns that a person has absent battle tones until you've listened to each quadrant for at least five minutes but that is a 20 minutes to listen to someone's quadrants and Say that you didn't hear about tones. So really I have never said that someone has absent battle tones I also think that's really kind of hard to say So usually if I don't hear a lot of battle tones or they're coming one every You know 30 seconds or a minute, then I would say that is hypoactive. Thank you guys so much for watching this video If you have any questions leave it in the comments below Give this video a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel and make sure you check out also my other Oscultation videos. I did heart sounds and lung sounds so check those out as well and Then I would say give this video a thumbs up. Okay, and subscribe to my channel and I'll see you guys next time. Bye