NUR 2180 Physical Assessment Quiz Respiratory exam 2024
NUR 2180 Physical Assessment Quiz Respiratory exam 2024 Where can bronchial sounds be heard? -Correct Answer-Over the trachea. It is loud, harsh, and usually upon expiration What type of adventitious sound is created by narrowing of the bronchi? -Correct Answer-Wheezes ·What does a rhonchi finding represent? -Correct Answer-There is inflammation in the lung due to an obstruction or other cause. Common in patients with COPD, bronchitis, pneumonia or cystic fibrosis What is tactile fremitus? -Correct Answer-palpable vibrations transmitted through the bronchopulmonary tree to the chest wall as the patient is speaking What does tactile fremitus assess -Correct Answer-The amount of air in the lungs, lung tissue density and fluid consolidation in the lungs. How to perform tactile fremitus -Correct Answer-Palpate chest while PT says "ninety nine" Know why side-to-side pattern is used during a respiratory assessment -Correct Answer-Assesses for symmetry among the lung fields crackles -Correct Answer-rice Krispy sound or pop rocks. Course or fine and it is from increased fluid in the lungs. stridor -Correct Answer-high pitched crowing noise from upper airway obstruction or an allergic reaction wheeze -Correct Answer-high pitched musical sound seen with an asthma attack rhonchi -Corr
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