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Bronchial - harsh, hollow
Bronchovesicular - louder & more turbulence
Vesicular - peripheral lung fields |
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| rapid, deep, labored; diabetic ketoacidosis |
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| usually brain death/imminent death, disorganized breathing with irregular and varying depths |
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| rapid with pauses usually related to brain damage |
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| sustained above 25 RPM, pain, anxiety, fever, illness, exercise |
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| costal cartilages calcify, decrease in elasticity of the lungs, decrease in oxygenation, increased secretion production |
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| the spoken word; normally sounds distant & muffled |
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greater clarity of the spoken word
(lung consolidation) |
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| nasal quality (lung consolidation) |
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whisper can be heard clearly
(lung consolidation) |
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| Adventitious Breath Sounds |
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Crackles due to fluid
Rhonchi - turbulent/snoring sound |
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| SQ air is trapped or there is a gas producing bacteria present; felt & heard |
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| Tactile Fremitus (spoken word) |
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| if decrease or absent may be air trapping (emphysema/pleural thickness) |
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| chronic asthma, emphysema, CF, ribs more horizontal, spine kyphotic, prominent sternal angle, trachea posteriorly displaced |
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| asymmetrical movement, ICS retraction, nasal flaring, wide eyed staring, anxiety, restlessness, agitation, lips pursing, increased expiratory effort |
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| Factors that affect intensity of tactile fremitus |
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| relative location of bronchi to chest wall, thickness of chest wall, anything that obstructs transmission of vibrations |
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| A condition in which excess fluid builds around the lung |
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| chest expansion decreased on lft. side, breath sounds louder w/ fine crackles over lft. lobe |
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| coarse, low-pitched sound w/ inspiration & expiration, patient has pain w/ breathing |
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| shorter lung with 3 lobes |
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