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| slow breathing, <10 breaths per minute, regular rate |
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| high pitched and loud, inspiration is less than expiration |
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| bronchovesicular breath sounds |
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| moderate pitch with moderate amplitudes. Inspiration is equal to expiration, has mixed quality |
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| low pitch with softer amplitudes. Inspiration is freater than expiration. Quality is like rustling in the trees |
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| abnormal, discontinuous, adventitious lung sounds head on inspiration |
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| difficult labored breathing |
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| increased levels of carbon dioxide in the blood |
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| increased rates and depth of breathing |
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| buildup of CO2 in the blood. decreased breathing rate. |
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| decreased levels of oxygen in the blood |
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| middle section of the thoracic cavity |
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| double membrane sac that covers the lungs |
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| pleurae that is on the lungs |
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| pleurae membrane that goes around the cavity wall. |
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| sac filled with fluid that allows fluid, smooth movement |
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| used to pinpoint a finding vertically on the chest |
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| midsternal reference lines |
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| bisects the center of each clavicle at a point halfway between the palpated sternoclavicular and acromioclavicular joints |
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| midaxillary referene lines |
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| runs down from the apex of the axilla and lies between and parallel to the other two axillary reference lines |
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| continues down from the posterior axially fold where the latissimus dorsai muscle inserts |
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| runs down middle of the scapula |
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| vertebral reference lines |
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| chest bone, made up of the manubrium, body, and the xyphoid process |
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| ridge that sperates second rib. its where the trachea biafurcates |
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| should be less than 90*. increases with otherly inflated lungs |
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| high pitched, monophonic, inspiratory, crowing sounds, louder in neck than over chest wall. Is more prominent in children. Is an obstruction of the central airway and can be life threatening. Can hear without the stethoscope |
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| rapid, shallow breathing, >24 breaths per minute |
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| vesicular breathing sounds |
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| the soft, low-pitched, normal breath sounds heard over peripheral lung fields |
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| high-piched, musical, sqeaking adventitious lung sounds |
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| inspiration is negative pressure |
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| expiration is positive pressure |
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| when alveoli collapse. makes it harder to inflat the lungs |
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| can be normal, no downward slopes of the ribs, ribs are horizontal. Is common with emphysema and asthma |
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| funnel breat; where the sternum goes in |
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| pigeon breast; where is sternum protrudes out. is usually asymptomatic, less common and is not necessary to treat |
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| curvature of the spine, greater than 45* is considered severe, can reduce residual lung volume, pain is associated, common with females post-matapausal |
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