SHADOW HEALTHRESPIRATORY CONCEPT LAB//Questions with Correct Answers

Fine crackles, as the name indicates, are high-pithed crackling sounds that occur when in haled air meets deflated alveoli, causing them to pop open. -short popping sounds -high-pithed -location: usually bases of lower lobes Tip: fine crackles sound like the noise created by rolling a strand of hair between your thumb and index finger. Crackles (course) Loud low pitch bubbling sounds that are caused when air meets secretions in the large airways. -short crackling sounds -low-pithed -location: trachea and large bronchi Tip: coarse crackles sound like separating a velcro fastener. Rhonchi Rhonchi are continuous, low-pitched snoring sounds caused by airway obstruction from thick secretions, muscular constriction, or masses. -Long snoring sounds -low pitched -location: bronchi Tip: Rhonchi can sound like snoring or moaning Wheezes Continuous, high pitched musical sounds that are created by the narrowing of airways from swelling, secretions, or masses. -long musical sounds -high-pitched -location: all lung fields Stridor Loud, continuous, high pithed crowing sound that is caused by upper airway obstruction. **This is the most serious of the adventitious sounds and it requires immediate attention. -long crowing sounds -high-pitched -location: trachea Tip: stridor is usually audible without a stethoscope 2